Super Furry Animals - Love Kraft *Pre-Order

Release Date Friday 24th October 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.

Originally released on Mon 22 August 2005, the Furries’ third and final album to be recorded by Epic
Records, Love Kraft is to be reissued on double vinyl, 2CDs, including the 22-track bonus CD, Kiss
Me With Apocalypse and digital formats on Fri 24 October 2025 via the Cardiff-based independent
label, Strangetown Records. Four previously unheard tracks are drawn from the vaults, including the
squidgy ELO-stomp of drummer, Daf Ieuan-led Rock ‘N’ Roll Flu, plus the distorted space-jam of Cae
Marw, the band’s deep-bass sketch of Palo Alto and ghostly, percussive morsel of Bedw Arian.
The album followed six previous albums by the band, including their statement debut album, Fuzzy
Logic in 1996, melding an attention-demanding mix of literary, narcotic and musical influences.
Maintaining a shape that was ill-fitting in the jigsaw of other 90’s guitar bands, their follow-up, UK Top
Ten album, Radiator brought the hooky squelch of the bona fide indie dancefloor classic, The
International Language of Screaming . The next decade saw the release of the first Top 20-charting,
Welsh language album, Mwng (2000), followed by further experimentation and commercial success
with Rings Around The World (2001) and Phantom Power (2003).
Love Kraft’s sense of cohesion, collaboration and free-flow of rich harmony has been credited to the
five-piece escaping Wales to record in the shimmering heat of Figueres, Catalunya. Bringing famed
Beastie Boys producer, Mario Caldato Jr along with them for the ride, the travelling band’s stay in the
Catalonian hometown of Salvador Dali included found sounds, boozy petrol stations, gastronomic
revelations and, finally, a rich album of strings, synths and opulent vocal harmonies.
While eventually finding their way to Baha, near to Rio di Janeiro to mix the album Love Kraft’s story
began in Wales and Pleasure Foxxx Studios, where the band began to craft the album’s songs.
Embracing the landmark of a seventh album, notably coming after the 2004 release of their first ‘best
of…’ package, Songbook: The Singles, Vol. 1, Super Furry Animals pooled ideas and affected further
democracy in their songwriting, taking a load off traditional lead-writer and front man, Gruff Rhys, and
sharing in lead vocal duties (aside from the microphone-averse bassist, Guto Pryce).
Love Kraft was the first Super Furry Animals album recorded to hard disc instead of multi-track tape,
and found the band typically explorative and open to happenstance. Zoom’s opening splash into the
recording studio’s swimming pool is accompanied by the on-location, pool table samples found
elsewhere on the album.

Updated packaging features the original, meticulously built diorama design by long-time collaborator
Pete Fowler. Constructed by hand in his studio, complete with bulb-lit illumination, then photographed,
the sleeve’s depiction of a monolith-rich desert landscape reflects the sense of other space and time
depicted by Love Kraft’s woozy songs. The final sleeve design again comes courtesy of Mark James.

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