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ARTIST: Super Furry Animals
TITLE: Hey Venus
WEB DEBUT: June 27, 2007
RELEASE DATE: August 27th, 2007 (U.K.)
SOUND QUALITY: 191 kbps
ONE-LISTEN VERDICT: For starters, it's the leanest SFA album in recent memory, barely making it past the half-hour mark—not a bad move, considering the the band's fondness for studio overindulgence. And while many of the tracks bring to mind '60s-songbook pop ("Show Your Hand" sounds like it was recorded in a kooky lab in the basement of the Brill Building), there's still plenty of Welsh weirdness, such as the giddy "Baby Ate My Eightball." Shame about the album cover, though.
WHERE TO FIND THE BEST TRACK: Unfortunately, "Eightball" isn't blogged anywhere yet, but the equally upbeat "Neo Consumer" is over at Sound Bites.
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Comments
"Into the Night" is pretty great too.
Wow. Super Furry Animals. I almost forgot about them.
Yikes! That cover! SFA are a pretty genius band, but... wow, that's ugly.
i've seen the cover artists' other stuff for two japanese bands, supercar and walrus, and this cover just looks thrown together. that lighthouse and water look almost identical to the cover of walrus' self-titled LP. as for SFA, that awful text is just so misplaced it ruins any merit the design had.
granted, the cover's not pete fowler, but after listening to the album for a week or so (to and from work), it's surprisingly appropriate.
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