Listen to the sunny melodies on the Super Furry Animals' most recent album, Phantom Power, and you might think all was right with the world. But not if you were really paying attention. The Welsh band counterbalance those sweet, uplifting melodies with dark and bloody tales of oil wars and environmental devastation. The shock of the lyrics means that the album packs quite a heavy emotional punch.
"To be honest, it'd be nice to be able to sing positive songs," explains Furry bassist Guto Pryce. "We try not to get bogged down too much by world events, but they've sort of overshadowed everything else in the past couple of years. And if you're writing honestly about what you think, it's bound to come in. There's quite a lot of paranoia going on in the world at the moment. We travel a lot and go through a lot of airports, and it's in your face constantly."
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