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Recordings : Phantom Phorce : North America
 Super Furry Animals
Phantom Phorce
XL/Beggars Group USA CD ~ 14 September 04
Wishing Tree Records/Empyrean Records 2XLP ~ 5 November 04
[edited by superfurrylogic.com]
(Placid Casual/Beggars Group USA)
When America's SUPER FURRY ANIMALS fans find out about this, it'll be mayhem. PHANTOM PHORCE, to be released on the band's own Placid Casual imprint via Beggars Group USA, is a masterful collection of reworkings that takes the tracks from the band's sixth, 2003 studio album, PHANTOM POWER, and whips them into a fierce, diverse musical frenzy. From Killa Kela's beat-box laden Golden Retriever, to Four Tet's organic-soul Piccolo Snare, to Frieband's blippy-trippy Hello Sunshine, PHANTOM PHORCE breathes new life into now-classic SFA treasures. |
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PHANTOM PHORCE TRACKLISTING:
1. HELLO SUNSHINE: Weevil
2. LIBERTY BELLE: Mario Caldato Jr
3. GOLDEN RETRIEVER: Killa Kella
4. SEX, WAR AND ROBOTS: Wauvenfold
5. PICCOLO SNARE: Four Tet
6. VENUS AND SERENA: Massimo
7. FATHER, FATHER: Boom Bip
8. BLEED FOREVER: Brave Captain
9. OUT OF CONTROL: Zan Lyons
10. CITYSCAPE SKY BABY: Minotaur Shock
11. VALET PARKING: High Llamas
12. THE UNDEFEATED: Llwybr Llaethog
13. SLOW LIFE: Sir Doufous Styles
14. VALET PARKING: Force Unknown
15. HELLO SUNSHINE: Frieband
As a special bonus, the SLOW LIFE EP features a new edit of Phantom Power's Slow Life, and brand new tracks Lost Control and Motherfokker.
For years, Wales' Super Furry Animals have been stunning US audiences with their progressive creative integrity and unfaltering artistic prowess. With successful appearances on late night talk shows like "Conan O'Brien" and "Carson Daly," sessions on KCRW [see press : sessions], and opening tour slots with Grandaddy, SFA continue to find new US audiences. It's their solid longevity that's solidified their reputation as a musical treasure of epic proportions.
As the only band in history to simultaneously release a CD and DVD of two consecutive albums, 2001's Rings Around the World and 2003's Phantom Power, there's no doubting SFA�s reputation as a Technicolor, multimedia force to be reckoned with.
So where is the visual component to PHANTOM PHORCE? Simply put, this double-disc's packaging alone, designed by resident SFA cartoonist, Pete Fowler, is a cardboard casing that unfurls into the craziest, most colorful video game you've never played. Insane!
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~ 5 August, published by superfurrylogic.com; words theirs; edits and links ours ~ not for republishing elsewhere
Wishing Tree Records/Empyrean Records release Phantom Phorce on 2 gold colored vinyl LPs in gatefold sleeve on 5 November 04
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