Supersweet.org - Single Review: Super Furry Animals - 'Mt.'

It’s to be expected after sixteen years in the business that creative minds may dwindle and almost become arid of ideas and imagery. “I wasn't looking for a mountain / There was the mountain / It was a big fucking mountain / So I climbed the mountain” opens Super Furry Animals’ ‘Mt.’. Having not heard it, you would almost want to sing it in a dopey stoner warble, that which has become idiosyncratic of the Welsh psych-poppers over their career spanning nine albums.

It’s almost as if they have suffered some sort of lyrical dementia. But we have grown fond of the SFA’s lackadaisical attitude towards obscurity and pop form, and that’s why this is so endearing a treat as ever. Deep it is not, but it’s their experience in orchestrating eloquently ambiguous pop tunes that makes us all rabidly committed to their presence at some point in our lives. Swirling with mosquito like strings and humming slide guitar, ‘Mt.’ melts to the sound of a glam Slade bumbling along merrily in embrace as to their longevity and success after a session in their local. Simply SFA. Just enjoyable. 7/10