SUPER FURRY ANIMALS

RINGS AROUND THE WORLD

JULIAN MARSZALEK

(Epic, 2001) Emerging at the height of Britpop on Alan McGee’s fabled Creation Records with their delightfully quirky 1996 debut single Hometown Unicorn, Super Furry Animals immediately marked themselves down as a breed apart from what was going on around them. Prodigiously talented and with a fierce intelligence and sense of humour to match, it was obvious to anyone paying attention that these Welsh wonders were in for the long haul. And unlike labelmates Oasis, who found themselves increasingly circling down the plug hole of creativity, Super Furry Animals moved ever forward with each subsequent release. Their fifth album, and first for new paymasters Epic in the wake of Creation’s ignominious collapse, Rings Around The World remains their most progressive and commercially successful album to date. Embracing the new eclecticism…

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