Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power (2023 Remaster) 3CD/2LP

Super Furry Animals were one of the first post-alternative bands, fusing together a number of disparate musical genres - including power pop, punk rock, techno, and progressive rock - creating a shimmering, melodic, irreverent, and wilfully artsy rock and roll.

Produced by the band, "Phantom Power", celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2023, keeps a much lower profile than the band’s previous work. The album, for the most part, is awash with pedal steel, acoustic guitars and vocal harmonies. But if you think the creative juices have ceased, you could barely be more wrong.

Gruff Rhys' songwriting moves a step forward on "Phantom Power", with playful story-based lyrics about turtles, mingers, ninjas and cabbages contrasting with lines about death, radiation and war.

This 2LP heavyweight black vinyl deluxe reissue, with original artwork and die-cut sleeve, has been carefully remastered from the mixdown tapes and includes liner notes from the album’s executive producer Kurt Stern.

If you need more Super Furries, the remastered album is also available as a 3CD format, with two CDs packed with loads of bonus material, including out-takes, demos, and live versions, much of it previously unreleased.

Tracklist:

- PHANTOM POWER -

1. Hello Sunshine
2. Liberty Belle
3. Golden Retriever
4. Sex, War & Robots
5. The Piccolo Snare
6. Venus & Serena
7. Father Father #1
8. Bleed Forever
9. Out of Control
10. Cityscape Skybaby
11. Father Father #2
12. Valet Parking
13. The Undefeated
14. Slow Life

- SOLVENT ABUSE AWARENESS WEEK [3CD ONLY] -

1. Father Father #5
2. Summer Snow
3. Blue Fruit
4. Cowbird
5. Sanitizzzed
6. Motherfokker [feat. Goldie Lookin Chain]
7. Lost Control
8. The Man Doesn't Give a Fuck (Live)

- I NEED NO GUIDANCE; JUST YOUR PATIENCE [3CD ONLY] -

1. Father Father (Stiwdio Ofn Demos, Gwanwyn 2002)
2. Hello Sunshine (Stiwdio Ofn Demos, Gwanwyn 2002)
3. Aluminum Illuminati (Retitled 'Aluminum Illuminati') (Stiwdio Ofn Demos, Gwanwyn 2002)
4. Cabbages (Retitled 'Cityscape Skybaby') (Stiwdio Ofn Demos, Gwanwyn 2002)
5. Golden Retriever (Stiwdio Ofn Demos, Gwanwyn 2002)
6. Hummingbird (Retitled 'Hummingbird') (Stiwdio Ofn Demos, Gwanwyn 2002)
7. Billy's Gone (Retitled 'Cloudberries') (Stiwdio Ofn Demos, Gwanwyn 2002)
8. Head First (Stiwdio Ofn Demos, Gwanwyn 2002)
9. No Go (Retitled 'Paddling Pools') (Stiwdio Ofn Demos, Gwanwyn 2002)
10. Father Father (Stiwdio Ofn Demos, Gwanwyn 2002)
11. Sex, War & Robots (AV Happenings Demos, Chwefror 2002)
12. Bluebird 1 (AV Happenings Demos, Chwefror 2002)
13. Bluebird 2 (AV Happenings Demos, Chwefror 2002)
14. Bluebird 5 (AV Happenings Demos, Chwefror 2002)
15. Bluebird 4 (AV Happenings Demos, Chwefror 2002)
16. Walk You Home (AV Happenings Demos, Chwefror 2002)
17. The Undefeated (AV Happenings Demos, Chwefror 2002)
18. Every Building Has Been Built (AV Happenings Demos, Chwefror 2002)
19. Blue Fruit (AV Happenings Demos, Chwefror 2002)
20. Valet Parking (AV Happenings Demos, Chwefror 2002)
21. Valet Parking (Rockfield Rough Mix, Mai 2002)
22. Out of Control (Rockfield Rough Mix, Mai 2002)
23. Paddling Pools (Rockfield Rough Mix, Mai 2002)
24. Miami Vice (Rockfield Rough Mix, Mai 2002)
25. Slow Life (Rockfield Rough Mix, Mai 2002)

About this product: this reissue is available on 3CD and 2LP formats.

The 3CD is housed in a digipack.

The 2LP is pressed on heavyweight black vinyl.