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Smart, melodic, catchy songs that not only have strong, wonderful structures, but are graced with inventive, clever arrangements.
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'Mwng' or 'Mane' (as in horses) is a purely Welsh language album and is a theoretically disorientating and complex, but triumphantly audacious, experience.
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What SFA have done here is beautifully sublime, and they've done it without ploy or pretension.
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One of the most extraordinary indie sets since the Olivia Tremor Control's Dusk At Cubist Castle.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 17 out of 21
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Mixed: 0 out of 21
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Negative: 4 out of 21
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WillieLAug 14, 2006I speak Welsh. So I know what they're on about (even though Gruff Rhys has a distinctively northen accent). Its excellent.