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How can this be?, July 6, 2000
How can an album entirely in Welsh, a language I do not understand a word of, strike a chord and sound as beautiful and meaningful as The Beach Boys, The Beatles and Neil Young? The Furries might be most loved for being the psychedelic Welsh Kinks, but this is their most beautiful moment to date. Fan or not, you can't help but be seduced by these tunes. Gruff's voice is at its finest and the melodies on this album bring to mind Brian Wilson, Lennon & McCartney, Scott Walker and later day Byrds.Best thing about this record? Apart from the twinkling delicate beauty of the music, you can always sit back, skin up and imagine you know exactly what they're singing about.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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What else would you expect from SFA but brilliance?, June 26, 2000
After 1999's brilliant Geurilla (album of the year? probably) I couldn't wait for Mwng (translates as Mane, as in the mane of the lion-a super furry animal!). This album is in their native language of Welsh and in the style of the 1960's.Whether it is the opening (Badness) punkish stomper or the Beatles/Beach Boys/Love haunting of 'Joining the Periphery' you're listening to (or any of the other numbers) you'll soon find yourself singing along (doing your best with the Welsh words) because you may not understand what you're saying, but its SO catchy. Many of the more contemporary sounds we've come to expect of the Furries aren't present (there is no techno stomper on the level of the last album's 'Mobile Phone') but do make some cameos, ie the vocoded bits on 'Sunny Intervals.' That said, if you like exciting and interesting music that is breaking new ground or just super catchy pop or if you really loved the more traditional numbers on Guerilla like 'The Turning Tides,' 'Northern Lites,' 'The Teacher,' or 'Fire in my Heart' you should love this. Strangely, the SFAs have yet to dent the POP! market outside of England (maybe Gruff's thick accent is why). If you give them a chance, they should dent your conscience and you're heart. Before you know it you'll be walking around saying things like "Ysbeidiau Heulog." Stranger things have happened.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Welsh wizardry, June 21, 2000
Mwng is Welsh band Super Furry Animals' fourth studio album, but their first solely in their native Welsh language, and it's absolutely brilliant. Musically mature, and lyrically bizzare (as usual). What sets this album apart from the others are the melodies which seem to come in an endless supply. Highlights are Track 6 'Pan ddaw'r wawr' (When dawn breaks) which has what is musically the Super Furry Animals' gene sound. Highlight of the second half is the blinding finale 'Gwreiddiau dwfn, Mawrth oer ar y blaned Neifion', translation too bizzare to mention here. It is an epic of early Neil Young proportions. Buy this CD and get a taste of Welsh culture through the eyes of doped up twenty first century radicals. Long may they run.
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