Super Furry Animals: Dark Days/Light Years

Apr 19 2009 by Paul Cole, Sunday Mercury

SUPER FURRY ANIMALS

Dark Days/ Light Years (Rough Trade)

wAFTER 13 years in the public eye and eight studio albums, SFA are dangerously close to becoming national treasures. Despite never being outright ‘cool’ they have outlived and outgunned many a trend. But for all the goodwill towards Gruff Rhys & Co, this album is disappointing. Where 2007’s Hey Venus was sharply focused return to simple pop writing values, here the band are unable to keep up with their own ambitious template. Crazy Naked Girls is a laboured one-liner, Mt a musty letdown and Cardiff In The Sun a less than elegant stab at electro-prog. JD