A perfect getaway in these Dark Days
“Where do you wanna go? / ’Cause we
could go anywhere,” Super Furry Animals frontman Gruff Rhys vows in
“Where Do You Wanna Go?” on the band’s new record. SFA makes
good on this promise. With a sprawling soundscape and off-the-wall
lyrics, Dark Day/Light Years is a quite trip—often in more ways
than one.
Though the majority of the tracks have
psychedelic roots—the frenzied guitars and wailing in opener “Crazy
Naked Girls” set this tone—they’re layered with more
conventional rock (“Mt”) and dance music (“The Very Best of
Neil Diamond”). Accompanying lyrics meander from one absurd topic
to another: “Helium Heart” determines what purpose the chin
serves (“to hold a grin,” of course, and “the tongue can taste
the vegemite”); the meanings behind song titles “Moped Eyes”
and “Inaugural Trams” are never quite made clear. But a healthy
dose of nonsense, especially when it provides such thorough escapism,
certainly never hurt anyone.
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