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GRUFF RHYS "Candylion" Reviews
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AZRating: 7.2
Users rating: 9.0 |
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Release: 11 Jan 2007
Label: Rough Trade
Genre: Rock, Pop
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| PitchFork |
Rating: 8.0 |
Candylion is 12 rounds of psychedelic Calvinball, new rules seemingly made up and abandoned as Rhys goes along chasing his eccentric muse.
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| MusicOMH.com |
Rating: 8.0 |
In the mid-90s, it appeared that almost every band was from Wales. The renaissance started with Manic Street Preachers, and Catatonia, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci and possibly the best of the bunch, Super Furry Animals, followed in their wake.
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| Times Online |
Rating: 8.0 |
This second solo album from Super Furry Animals’ frontman is a delight, understated without being minimal, and a return to form after SFA’s heavy-handed Love Kraft.
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| NME |
Rating: 7.0 |
The Super Furry Animal alone again doesn't disappoint
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| The Independent |
Rating: 4.0 |
Originally intended as an album of quickly recorded, mellow acoustic songs, this solo offering from the Super Furry Animals frontman gradually expanded in ambition as Gruff Rhys became enamoured again with The Jesus and Mary Chain, sampladelic daisy-age hip-hop, and his parents' collection of old Welsh-language prog-rock and folk, the various influences seeping into his songs.
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