new super furries album is on slsk,has anyone got it yet?

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i'm downloading it at the moment
i have a version of the first track that is missing a chunk of the middle,i think,but it sounds good..
i'm kind of nervous about getting it though,after the let down that was rings around the world...
if they haven't sorted it out for this album i dunno,i'd lose faith in them
one dodgy album is ok,but if there were two in a row i dunno if they'd ever get it back...
anyway,hopefully it'll be as good as it should/could be...
anyone else heard it?

― robin (robin), Monday, 21 April 2003 01:35 (twenty-two years ago)

the new songs they played on the last tour were dreadful, more of the dirge ballad nonsense. he's not much of a social commentator he should stick to the odd songs about drug dealers, unicorns and einstein.

― keith (keithmcl), Monday, 21 April 2003 01:51 (twenty-two years ago)

i haven't seen them in a while,last time there were no songs played that i didnt know..

― robin (robin), Monday, 21 April 2003 01:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Most of the files on slsk are mislabelled and you have to figure out which is which by the lyrics (and 3 tracks are instrumentals). Also, the sound is a bit low on said files. As for the album itself, I love it to death but I suspect most will despise it for its relative mellowness. The single is a bit weak compared to the rest of the album, especially "Liberty Belle", "Sex, War and Robots" and "The Undefeated". Also, the use of electronics on this one is more akin to "Geurilla"than "Rings".

And I actually really like the social commentary on this one, which is prevalent on nearly every track ("Phantom Power" itself is a reference to holy war).

This album is going to divide people even more than "Rings".

― Simon H., Monday, 21 April 2003 02:20 (twenty-two years ago)

which is the single?
jesus,they're still my favourite band,but i realise that i'm fairly out of touch since rings around the world,all the other albums (well,since radiator)i've known everything about them long before they appeared....
sounds good from what you're saying though,i think guerilla is a million times better than rings around the world...

― robin (robin), Monday, 21 April 2003 02:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I've got the whole album. This is a sucky comparison, but Phantom Power is to Rings... as Yoshimi... is to Soft Bulletin. After a couple of listens, I like Rings... more.

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Monday, 21 April 2003 07:26 (twenty-two years ago)

a new furries record, eh? i hope the deliver fully on their potential this time, but i haven't heard anything from it yet.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 21 April 2003 09:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Ringsd around the world?? LET DOWN?!?!?

― Evan (Evan), Monday, 21 April 2003 09:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Dammit, I can't connect to Soulseek!!

― Evan (Evan), Monday, 21 April 2003 09:30 (twenty-two years ago)

The single is "Golden Retriever". It's not bad and it's pretty catchy, it's just that there are much stronger songs on the album. "Liberty Belle" would make a better lead-off single.

― Simon H., Monday, 21 April 2003 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

shit,the whole flaming lips thing is exactly what i was worried about
i don't want them to become that type of band at all

also,evan,yeah,its not a popular opinion,but i think all the super furries albums are near flawless,leading up to mwng,which is the greatest album ever recorded,and then rings around the world,which just wasn't nearly as good in my opinion...

― robin (robin), Monday, 21 April 2003 15:29 (twenty-two years ago)

14 songs total, right? well, i've been trying to match the appropriate songs to their respective titles and find myself with two songs that seem exactly alike. other slsk clients seem to have this same problem. the songs are 1:48 and 1:57 running. of course, i would like to believe that these are father father #1 & #2 but i already have a song that begins with the words 'father father.' what gives anyone have any ideas? (yeah, i realize i'm to vague for help)

― j.a.e., Friday, 25 April 2003 00:06 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah the tracks i got seemed all over the place,i dunno what the story is...

― robin (robin), Friday, 25 April 2003 00:16 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

what is the general feeling about this record? i quite like it, their best since radiator: it sounds very much like a super furry animals album, but this needn't be a bad thing.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Sunday, 27 July 2003 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

i like it much better than the last one, though it quite as good as their run through Mwng or whatever the Welsh one was called before Rings. The smoothness has been mixed up and roughed up a bit more again, the weird bits bobbing back to the surface.

― Bosse-De-Nage (Bosse-De-Nage), Sunday, 27 July 2003 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

mwng is the worst album. i have been listening to rings recently and liking it more, 'no sympathy' is still dreadful and the lyrics are crap.

― keith (keithmcl), Sunday, 27 July 2003 18:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Eh? But that's the sweetest fuck-off song ever, or one of them at least.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 27 July 2003 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm not buying an ELO album...even if they call themselves super furry animals

― Ramon (Ramon), Sunday, 27 July 2003 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

it's not ELO
it's more like alt.psych.country
SFA OK!

― Haikunym, Sunday, 27 July 2003 23:12 (twenty-two years ago)

"Rings" was sweet, I thought britpop was dead 'till I heard that album. Pitchfork liked "Phantom Power", and ye, so must I.

― John Baer, Friday, 1 August 2003 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I ordered it on DVD and I'm still waiting for it to arrive.

I had to order it on DVD 'cos one of our cats loves Rings Around The World so much - whenever it's on he sits on the sofa, staring transfixed at the TV screen whilst trying deperately to rotate his ears 'round on his head like satellite dishes to follow the sounds 'round the room.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 1 August 2003 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

When I saw them in Cardiff a fews weeks ago they played one song that was really metal, and they new it. They had videos behind them and during that song they showed clips of, among others, Black Sabbath.

― mei (mei), Friday, 1 August 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

It's alright, isn't it? But nothing more. It's better than the last one but Radiator and Guerilla still shit on it from a great hight.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 1 August 2003 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

heard it for the first time last night,and sadly,i suspect nick might well be otm

― robin (robin), Friday, 1 August 2003 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

it sounds like the "relaxed" super furries album to me. with "guerilla" and "rings..." they were trying a little too hard (in different ways) - this just sounds like them settling down to knocking out A Super Furry Animals Record every couple of years. this is a good idea, IMO, and this *is* their best since radiator (previously their only completely satisfying release)

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 1 August 2003 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

killian have you heard mwng yet?

― robin (robin), Saturday, 2 August 2003 00:19 (twenty-two years ago)

yes i have. my brother is quite a big fan of the furries, and he has it. i found mwng a little plain and boring - i reckon "guerrilla" and "mwng" are the farthest apart - and i like it best when they hit a balance between the two. for me, "radiator" and "phantom power" best acieve this.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Saturday, 2 August 2003 23:08 (twenty-two years ago)

what was everyone's problem with Rings again? was it the hype? i thought it was great, but i'm not a superfan or anything. phantom power has some nice stuff on it, but some of those slower/mid-tempo songs feel a little sluggish to me. i have only played it once though. it will probably grow on me.

― scott seward, Saturday, 2 August 2003 23:17 (twenty-two years ago)

people want the ease
and acid-blasted comfort
of the first two discs

but the SFA
has some other horizons:
subtlety! beauty!

these outmoded tropes
turn off Fun-Poppists but still
Phantom Power roolz

― Haikunym, Sunday, 3 August 2003 14:09 (twenty-two years ago)

What I've heard of it was v. good -- but I stand by my belief that they should stop touring (or maybe LA just sucks the performance energy out of them).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 3 August 2003 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

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