Four Super Furries form Kool new band
A NEW band has emerged from Welsh music stars Super Furry Animals.
Das Koolies features four out of five members of the Furries – Huw ‘Bunf’ Bunford, Cian Ciarán, Dafydd Ieuan and Guto Pryce – but minus Gruff Rhys.
The first fruit of the band’s labours, It’s All About The Dolphins, is out now through the band’s label, Strangetown.
Described as “compassionate, head-nodding, deep-bass-driven, party-ready, plugged-in, hook-toting, electro-beach-pop”, it’s the sort of reassuringly outre pop music made famous under their better-known moniker.
While Furries frontman Gruff Rhys has in recent times established a solo career, the remaining members have set out to create an unexpected and unpredictable future made up of four, permanent parts.
The name Das Koolies can be traced back to the recording sessions for the band’s 1999 Guerrilla album, when they were rumoured to have recorded a secret album as another band called Das Koolies during the downtime between sessions.
However, they promised never to release what was recorded as it would be “career suicide”.
According to the press release accompanying Das Koolies’ debut single, this new music emerged from the desire for the remaining members of the band to continue to create together.
It reads: “Setting out in a docklands room in Cardiff, the post-industrial, post-tour bus, post-everything mood captured their imagination, the atmosphere blue-lit four brains replete with decades of stored stimuli and steered them into a lock-up stuffed to the rafters with boom, squelch and fuzz-making gadgets.
“Consciously, they struck the accord that they could combat comparison by equipping themselves with groove and find enduring democracy in technology.
“It’s All About The Dolphins finds sorrow in humanity’s grip over nature, set to an electrified fit of instrumentation, the presence of mammal hand and brain still traceable via the compelling sense of melody still out of robots’ grasp.”