Track-by-track

Haven't found this anywhere else but MusicRadar have got a track-by-track breakdown by Gruff of the new album. All sounds gooood.

Track-by-track - MusicRadar

New album announced!

Feeling slightly giddy as I've just found out that a new album is due in March! Suddenly seems such a long time to wait...

Apparently there'll be a digital release from their website 16th March and the physical release will be 13th April in the UK and 21st April in the US. There's no title as yet but you can see a tracklisting on their website, which I'm happy to see includes Earth (the song with one lyric?)! Groovy.

From the sounds of it, its going to be melodic, with no acoustic ballads and no country rock... so a bit of a harder sound but with the patented glorious SFA melodies and lyrics. I'm a bit sad that there won't be slower numbers as I do like the slow songs. That said, it's the Furries so I've no doubt it'll be a work of pure genius.

Plus, Fowler is back! Which is great news. I knew they couldn't stay away from him for long. He'll be collaborating with Tanaami, who produced the artwork for Hey Venus! The result may just be so psychedelic that my brain explodes... which wouldn't be a bad way to go out.

You can read all the glorious details on their website here;

New album announced

They're even teasing us with the idea that there will be more surprises announced closer to the release date. They tease me but I love it. Fantastic!

I'm so ridiculously excited at the prospect of a new tour to promote the album that I may just have to go and lie down.

Viva Zwei

There's a Super Furry (Gruff again, I know, I know...) interview on You Tube that I haven't seen before and it's only been up since the beginning of January so I thought I'd post the link here. It's an interview with Viva Zwei, a German music channel, and Gruff, talking about Rings Around the World in 2001. It's an in-depth, good little interview with Gruff even touching on my other obsession, films (albeit briefly!). Well worth a look. A relaxed and good-humoured interview but with depth. Although... it did leave me thinking that he must get fed-up with being asked to analyse his music all the time.

Anyway, I highly recommend it;

Viva Zwei, 2001
Part one
Part two
Part three
Part four
(NOTE:These links will take you direct to YouTube)

Gruffalo Goodness

It's the new year and I'm aching for a few more pictures. Stumbled on some great ones of Gruff. Very photogenic this man. They're from 2005, when he was playing at the Marquee Club in London.

All images are copyright to Andrew Kendall and you can see other bands (but, really, why would you want anything more than Gruff?) on his website http://www.andrewkendall.com/

It's a nice set of images with everything Gruff-like present and correct; curly hair, rough-and-ready beard, chunky rings and watch, groovy instruments (I've just noticed that one of his Fowler guitars has a Mork-style rainbow strap) and that lovely, slightly bemused expression...