Love Kraft
- Super Furry Animals
- Band Name: Super Furry Animals
- Record Label: XL / Beggars Banquet
- Release Date: Sep 13, 2005
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100A work that's at once blissfully romantic, ominously dark, and ridiculously imaginative. [#10, p.107]
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100Their melodies have never sounded richer or more lovely, their charm never more beguiling. SFA have made their best album yet.
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100Love Kraft is the greatest realisation of the Super Furry vision to date.
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90"Love Kraft"... sees the group slowing down and settling into themselves, revelling in their customary psychedelic indulgences while knocking out a supremely relaxed perfect pop album in the process.
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90Super Furry Animals have just made perhaps the defining record of their career. [Sep 2005, p.100]
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88Their greatest album. [#17, p.93]
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85A utopian epic, a sweeping musical argument for love in the time of Fallujah.
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Even by SFA's lofty standards, the production on Love Kraft is little short of incredible.
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Just another mind-bendingly great, often dazzling SFA record. [20 Aug 2005, p.57]
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80They seem to have recaptured a lot of the elegance and urgency that characterised the increasingly seminal 'Rings Around The World'... and the songwriting, even if it is roaming mostly uncharted territory, is back towards prime potency.
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The Furries are super once more. [Oct/Nov 2005, p.144]
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What could have easily ended up as a boring, stale record -- the sound of a band getting ready for 401(k) land -- is instead the peaceful sound of a goofy band being a little less silly.
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80"Love Kraft" is as cohesive a record as the group has yet produced.
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80It's not so much airily psychedelic as totally stoned. [#69, p.99]
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Unhurried, smooth and easy on the ears.
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Perhaps it's a little disappointing on some level that Love Kraft is merely a very good Super Furry Animals [album], with few surprises outside of its alluring sleekness.
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Love Kraft emphasizes contemplative beauty over the manic propulsion of the band's early work.
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70If Love Kraft were three or four songs shorter, would it be one of the Super Furry Animals' best records? Maybe.
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60A beautiful waste of time. [Sep 2005, p.88]
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60The difference between Super Furry Animals and all those freaky folk guys is that SFA aren't really trying to be all that freaky anymore. [Oct 2005, p.80]
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50Frankly, Love Kraft sounds like a different band, which would be fine, if it wasn't so less loveable and not nearly as bizarre.
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50While there's no doubt that listening to the Super Furries' seventh album is mostly a pleasure, there are moments when it feels like a little less relaxation might have paid off. [Sep 2005, p.116]
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Love Kraft is taken down by sludgy pacing and a paucity of ideas.
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JoeyL10This is probably the best album they've made. It's mature and absolutely beautiful.
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Alex10Another comment here asks "Are they ever going to make an album that is less than brilliant?" Unlikely.
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JimD9