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Mwng
by Super Furry Animals
MUSIC:
The Furries return with an entire album of Welsh-language songs.
| LABEL: |
Flydaddy |
| RELEASE DATE: |
20 June 2000 |
| DISCS: |
1 disc |
| GENRE(S): |
Rock, Alternative, Pop, Welsh |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
90
All Music Guide
Smart, melodic, catchy songs that not only have strong, wonderful structures, but are graced with inventive, clever arrangements.

90
Ink Blot Magazine
What SFA have done here is beautifully sublime, and they've done it without ploy or pretension.

90
Launch.com
One of the most extraordinary indie sets since the Olivia Tremor Control's Dusk At Cubist Castle.

80
Sonicnet
Horns, keyboards and acoustic guitars dominate the 10 tracks here, with an overall live sound that steers clear of the studio effects the band embraced with their last release, Guerrilla.

80
Dot Music
'Mwng' or 'Mane' (as in horses) is a purely Welsh language album and is a theoretically disorientating and complex, but triumphantly audacious, experience.

80
Nude As The News
Mwng fits right in with their unique vision, and shows that the band can happily and productively work outside of the traditional bounds of the music industry.

80
New Musical Express
In a world where a cheap squirt of brass is enough to equal "a new direction", the Super Furries' free-range ideas-farming is a vital antidote to the preservative-pumped junk that curdles music's bloodflow.

80
Mojo
The rehearsal-room feel of Mwng succeeds in capturing the organic, woody, mystical atmosphere that was sometimes missing from its highly-polished, heavily-digitised predecessors.

80
Q Magazine
At its best, this is strangely charming, chiming pop music with a twist. At other times, the bare-boned production hampers the inventiveness, rendering a track such as Y Teimlad (The Feeling) a workmanlike Velvet Underground retread rather than the thing of symphonic beauty it briefly threatens to be.

79
Pitchfork
A charming batch of stripped-down rock songs that isn't as fully realized or inventive as last year's Guerrilla, but still makes a damned enjoyable listen.

70
Rolling Stone
Minimizing their usual production trickery in favor of live-in-the-studio ensemble thrust, these merry pranksters swim in classic-psychedelia grooves while offering oodles of art-rock allusion.


The average user rating for this album is 8.5 (out of 10) based on 7 User Votes
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