Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World
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Artist: Super Furry AnimalsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-03-19
Music Label: Xl Recordings
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Alternate Route To Vulcan Street
- Sidewalk Serfer Girl
- (Drawing) Rings Around The World
- It's Not The End Of The World?
- Receptacle For The Respectable
- (A) Touch Sensitive
- Miniature
- No Sympathy
- Juxtapozed With U
- Presidential Suite
- Run! Christian, Run!
- Fragile Happiness
- Tradewinds
- The Roman Road
- Patience
- Happiness Is A Worn Pun
- Gypsy Space Muffin
- Edam Anchorman
- All The Shit U Do
Free Music Notes for Rings Around the World
Free Music Review: Ambitious and intelligent but could have used some editing
Hit: 4 Stars
If Brian Wilson was a young man today who was weaned in the indie pop/rock scene, this is the sort of music he'd probably have made. Its tribute to psychedelic pop finds infectious rhythms and low-key harmonies competing for attention. It's polished and often beautiful, especially in the way that some of the more dynamic tunes just sort of creep up on you. Some bland moments on occasion, but it's definitely an album to listen to front to back.
Surprisingly, the album's greatest standout is the heaviest, merging power pop with industrial rock dynamics on "Sidewalk Serfer Girl." Not for all tastes, especially when it starts getting electro-funky like the ending of "No Sympathy," but it's certainly imaginative and frequently retro (check out the lounge-soul swing of "Juxtaposed With U"). Besides, any album with a song called "Shoot Doris Day" can't be all bad, can it?
Best cuts: "Sidewalk Serfer Girl," "Receptacle For the Respectable," "Juxtaposed With U," "Shoot Doris Day," "Rings Around the World," "It's Not the End of the World?" "Alternate Route to Vulcan Street," "No Sympathy," "Run! Christian, Run!"
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Exclusive U.S. edition features a 6 track bonus disc of material! Guests include Paul McCartney, John Cale (Velvet Underground) & Sean O'Hagen (High Llamas). Co-produced by recent Bob Dylan producer Chris Shaw. Bonus disc tracks - 'Tradewinds', 'The Roman Road', 'Patience', 'Happiness Is A Worn Pun', 'Gypsy Space Muffin', 'Edam Anchorman' & 'All The Shit U Do'. Beggars Banquet.The fifth album from Welsh pop prodigies Super Furry Animals is their most ambitious work to date. Featuring everything from status quo-style boogie-rockers to technofied drill and bass meltdowns, this is an immaculately conceived pop masterpiece that has more in common with the excitable genre-crushing of 1999's Guerrilla than with their previous album, the respectable but defiantly firework-less Welsh-language folk outing Mwng. One of the great joys here is that, though the lyrics are imbued with dippy fun, closer inspection reveals a satisfyingly off-kilter--and frequently inspirational--intelligence. The gorgeous "Presidential Suite"--which, incidentally, features John Cale tickling the ivories--marries the classic SFA psychedelic shimmer to a weary lyric concerning the Monica Lewinsky scandal that rocked the Clinton presidency. Frontman Gruff Rhys questions the event sadly, as if it's the most pass? thing he can comprehend. Perhaps that's so: when you're playing with the sort of magic that's scattered liberally over Rings Around the World, even the salacious exploits of world leaders pale into tedium. --Louis Pattison
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