10 Super Furry Animals

Love Kraft EPIC, 2005

You say: “Love Kraft is underrated and an amazing display of SFA’s talents.” Mark Green, Twitter

Released in the band’s 10th anniversary year, Love Kraft ostensibly signalled a retreat into tradition. Opener Zoom refracted The Needle And The Damage Done into a choogling choral lament for the apocalypse. Perhaps significantly, Love Kraft opened up the lead vocal booth to allcomers (Rhys’ solo debut came out earlier the same year), with Dafydd Ieuan’s Atomik Lust positing a stoned union of The Beach Boys’ Feel Flows and Mott The Hoople knees-up, all the better to “Get our shit together”. Lazer Beam, meanwhile, recorded in Spain and mixed in Brazil with producer Mario Caldato Jr, was pure Furry fiesta: a rhythmic booty call to vaporise “imperial colonial bastards.”