Track Listing

1. Zoom
2. Atomik Lust
3. The Horn
4. Ohio Heat
5. Walk You Home
6. Lazer Beam
7. Frequency
8. Oi Frango
9. Psyclone!
10. Back On a Roll
11. Cloudberries
12. Cabin Fever

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #113390 in Music
• Released on: 2005-09-13
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
Their seventh album might just be the definitive SFA release. It's their loveliest and most cohesive, and is the first album to feature songs written and sung by nearly all the group members. In diversifying, they've found new focus in this full-on psychedelic soul masterpiece. "Love Kraft" is immense in scope, with more than half of its twelve tracks featuring swooning string arrangements (courtesy of unofficial Furry and sometime High Llama, Sean O'Hagan) as well as the odd appearance from a 100-strong mixed voice Catalan choir. Produced by Mario Caldato (Beastie Boys).

Amazon.com
Not, seemingly, an album about the Welsh band's adoration of boxed macaroni and cheese products. Then again, with Super Furry Animals it's impossible to tell. Its seventh album is aimed squarely at those who find the Flaming Lips a little too timid, Brian Wilson too rational, the Arcade Fire too conventional - essentially people who will always pick Donovan over Dylan. "Zoom" opens things with wailing guitars and a celestial chorus, tumbling into the LSD-dipped psychedelia of "Atomik Lust," which includes the only decipherable lyric, "Fine time to walk on wine," and then it's off to Neptune with the twisted but tender "Ohio Heat." A fine addition to a career that has already yielded bizzare hits like "Golden Retriever" and "Something 4 The Weekend." --Aidin Vaziri

Customer Reviews

Original, beautiful, and varied - in a word, perfect
This was my intro into the SFA world, and boy was I happy to experience it that way. Never have I heard such variety in an album executed so flawlessly - from the Pink Floyd inspired opening track "Zoom!" to the Afro sound of "Psyclone", SFA zips around, touching any genre they can, and hits a bullseye on each one. Rarely does an album become so cohesive and hold such emotional power; try not to get chills in the last few minutes of "Cloudberries". In the right state of mind, the album takes you to a whole new level (helpfully aided by a visualizer, of course). The band manages to emulate classic bands such as The Beatles and said Pink Floyd, but comes out with their own distinct style. No small feat. I've heard people call this album "uneven", but with unforgettable hooks in songs such as "Ohio Heat" and "Atomik Lust", I believe those critics no longer have credibility. The best album of the 21st century.

i have all their albums
and this one is by far my favorite. great Welsh psych-britpop-altrock-dance stuff. really originally stuff, or mix of stuff.

ESSENTIAL FOR ALL!

My favorite SFA record.
Perhaps not too many people would agree with me, but I prefer Love Kraft to any other SFA album.