Radiator (album)

Radiator
Studio album by Super Furry Animals
Released 25 August 1997
Recorded 1997
Genre Alternative rock, Neo-psychedelia
Length 46:54
Label Creation, Flydaddy
Producer Gorwel Owen, Super Furry Animals
Super Furry Animals chronology
Fuzzy Logic
(1996)Fuzzy Logic1996		 Radiator
(1997)		 Ice Hockey Hair
(1998)Ice Hockey Hair1998
Singles from Radiator
  1. "Hermann ♥'s Pauline"
    Released: 12 May 1997
  2. "The International Language of Screaming"
    Released: 14 July 1997
  3. "Play It Cool"
    Released: 22 September 1997
  4. "Demons"
    Released: 24 November 1997

Radiator is the second album by Super Furry Animals. It was released in August 1997 by Creation Records, and later the same year in the United States under Flydaddy Records. It peaked at number eight on the UK Albums Chart.[1] In 2005, it was reissued with a bonus disc of other tracks from the time.

Singer Gruff Rhys has described Radiator as "more interesting" than the band's debut Fuzzy Logic with the group taking advantage of producer Gorwel Owen's "Atari computers, and banks of old vintage synths" to create an album which was "musically ... much more adventurous".[2]

Release and reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[4]
The Guardian[5]
Mojo[6]
NME9/10[7]
Pitchfork8.6/10[8]
Q[9]
Record Collector[10]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[11]
Uncut9/10[12]

In 2000 Q magazine placed Radiator at number 73 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. Stylus Magazine named Radiator in a list of ten essential albums released by Creation Records in a 2003 article about the label.[13]

Track listing

All tracks written by Super Furry Animals.

No.TitleLength
1."Furryvision™" (Instrumental)1:25
2."The Placid Casual"2:49
3."The International Language of Screaming"2:14
4."Demons"5:12
5."Short Painkiller" (Instrumental)0:38
6."She's Got Spies"4:43
7."Play It Cool"3:16
8."Hermann ♥'s Pauline"4:43
9."Chupacabras"1:26
10."Torra Fy Ngwallt Yn Hir"1:54
11."Bass Tuned to D.E.A.D"3:20
12."Down a Different River"5:37
13."Download"3:19
14."Mountain People"6:14
  • Some American releases were packaged with Out Spaced, the band's 1998 B-sides collection.

Personnel

  • Gruff Rhys – vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, Moog, claps
  • Huw Bunford – electric guitar, backing vocals
  • Cian Ciaran – electronics, Rhodes piano, piano, backing vocals, claps
  • Guto Pryce – bass, sub-bass, claps
  • Dafydd Ieuan – drums, percussion, backing vocals, piano
  • Les Morrison – banjo (on "Demons")
  • Gorwel Owen – E-Bow, samples, electric harpsichord, backwards Rhodes
  • Martin Smith – trumpet
  • Simon James – tenor sax and flute
  • Andrew Frizzell – trombone and alto sax
  • The Electra Strings:
  • Sonia Slany – violin
  • Jules Singleton – violin
  • Clair Arster – viola
  • Dinah Beamish – cello

References

  1. ↑ "Super Furry Animals". Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 17 February 2011. Retrieved 3 September 2010.
  2. ↑ Martin, Piers (April 2008). "Album by album: Super Furry Animals". Uncut (131): 70–72.
  3. ↑ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Radiator – Super Furry Animals". AllMusic. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
  4. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-85712-595-8.
  5. ↑ Bennun, David (22 August 1997). "Furry box of delights". The Guardian.
  6. ↑ Prior, Clive (September 2017). "Super Furry Animals: Radiator". Mojo (286): 107.
  7. ↑ Cameron, Keith (23 August 1997). "Super Furry Animals – Radiator". NME. Archived from the original on 17 August 2000. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
  8. ↑ Hogan, Marc (6 June 2005). "Super Furry Animals: Fuzzy Logic / Radiator / Out Spaced / Guerilla / Mwng". Pitchfork. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
  9. ↑ Catchpole, Chris (September 2017). "Super Furry Animals: Radiator". Q (376): 119.
  10. ↑ Rathbone, Oregano (September 2017). "Super Furry Animals – Radiator". Record Collector (470). Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  11. ↑ McLeod, Kembrew (2004). "Super Furry Animals". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian. The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. London: Fireside Books. p. 796. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  12. ↑ Pinnock, Tom (September 2017). "Super Furry Animals: Radiator". Uncut (244): 53.
  13. ↑ Plagenhoef, Scott (1 September 2003). "Creation Records – Label Profile". Stylus Magazine. Retrieved 5 January 2010.
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