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- Summary: The Super Furry Animals Welsh musician's third solo album, full of influences -- ranging from Latin to lounge music -- is both inventive and mellow.
- Record Label: Wichita Recordings
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
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Top Track
If We Were Words (We Would Rhyme) | |
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Wandering hearts, Ticking together, But always apart, Open the door and the future restarts, But I'd never claim you were mine, Just if we were words... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 14 out of 20
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Mixed: 6 out of 20
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Dec 9, 2011There's a lot going on, but Hotel Shampoo never seems cluttered. It flows easily, so easily that it becomes an album to get lost in.
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Q MagazineMar 1, 2011Super Furry Animal ditches band and experimentation for the simple life. [March 2011, p. 114]
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Jun 6, 2011Rhys has weightier material in his body of work, but for sheer pop pleasure this album can't be beat.
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May 23, 2011This is Rhys wholly in his wheelhouse: offering up a handful of standalone highlights and clever deep cuts, hitting pleasure centers along the way, and quietly adding to a catalogue as deceptively substantial as anyone currently working the pop circuit with fifteen years behind and at least another fifteen ahead.
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Apr 19, 2011Whether driving a military tank through Glastonbury or recording a synth-pop tribute to playboy '80s auto mogul John Delorean, Super Furry Animals' frontman makes the gimmicky sublime.
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MojoApr 6, 2011Super Furry frontman's third solo venture, its title inspired by hair product freebies. [March 2011, p. 98]
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Mar 3, 2011Hotel Shampoo is the sound of craft triumphing over inspiration.
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