Super Furry Animals Review

The Super Furry Animals are a fantastic band.  To start off with, they are named after creatures such as the Yeti: super and furry.  Secondly, they have great music.  SFA brings massive variety and a unique sound to their music.  They draw upon numerous genres of music, creating ambitious and interesting songs.  A mix of neo-psychedelia, power-pop, progressive rock, a tint of punk, all mixed with the strangeness of Fridmann's Freaks.  SFA songs move from soft piano hymns like Download, to fast punk-sounding songs like Chupacabras.  A lot of talk in the reviews of this band on iTunes go crazy about their 2002 album Rings Around the World, and proclaim this year's 2009 album Dark Days/Light Years to be their best albums.  However, the 1997 album Radiator has been grossly underestimated by fans of this band.  Songs with catchy tunes like Demons that get you singing along to what are probably the easiest lyrics to understand by SFA and She's Got Spies' brilliantly soft then REALLY LOUD combo are the true genius of this band.  Not all songs on Radiator are great, but enough are better than anything else done by SFA that it makes the album one of the best.  A personal favorite of mine is about a friend of the Yeti: Chupacabras.  This song is amazing.  It is short, clocking in at only one minute and twenty-six seconds, but each second of that song is filled with fist-pumping, jump-in-the-air-grinning sound.  I first really enjoyed this song on a car ride to school.  I'd listened to it before, but I'd been so enraptured by Demons that I didn't pay Chupacabras it's deserved attention.  When I listened to it that day, it was on repeat for the next couple of hours.  I wanted to get up and start moshing with a giant grin on my face from the happiness the song exudes in the middle of the car; alas I could not do so.  This song makes the album complete, adding an element that if you were at a show, you'd just have a damn good time listening to this song!