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Super Furry Animals - Hey Venus! (2007)

Posted By: Designol

Date: 21 Jun 2023 19:45:04

2007 album from the Welsh Rock weirdos, their eighth studio album in 11 years. Their unique mixture of British Rock, Psychedelia and Folk has endeared them to critics and their large legion of fans. With each album, SFA take a musical step forward while never letting go of their brilliant past. The perfect band for those 'wake and bake' moments.

Sometime after Radiator, Super Furry Animals began exploring a wide sonic world, eventually drifting far out into orbit with albums like Rings Around the World and Phantom Power, albums so ambitious and so packed with celeb cameos that they brought the band attention from the respectable press. As accomplished as those albums were, they found SFA losing their divine gift of suggesting that anything could happen, the very thing that made their first four albums so divine. While they didn't get as overstuffed and lethargic as Mercury Rev or Flaming Lips did when they turned all serious – an impish sense of humor always pulsated underneath their music – Super Furry Animals did turn a bit ponderous, which made the relative levity of Love Kraft welcome even if the album was uneven, but that warm, hazy record in no way suggested the full-fledged return to pop power that is 2007's Hey Venus! By far the tightest record SFA has released since Radiator – boasting no song over five minutes and four clocking in under three – this is a concise, song-oriented record, which is somewhat ironic since it began its life as something as a concept album. The narrative was ditched during the recording as the group culled together 11 songs that hold together as an intensely colorful, insanely catchy pop album. Such a claim may suggest that this is the return of the frenzied rush of Fuzzy Logic, which isn't exactly true, because after a flurry of hooks at the outset – "Run-Away," "Show Your Hand," and even the cleverly tossed-off opener, "The Gateway Song," all hold their own with "God! Show Me Magic" and "Herman Loves Pauline" – the record settles into softer territory, trading on the lush Beach Boys, Bacharach, and ELO of their turn-of-the-century records. But if those albums were gauzy, as much about the texture as about the tune, here the focus is solely on the song, with each of the 11 tracks standing on its own yet working together to create an addictive 37-minute pop album. And just because this is disciplined in a way that Super Furry Animals haven't been in years doesn't mean they've ceased to progress – they've never had songs as lazily soulful as the closing "Let the Wolves Howl at the Moon" or "The Gift That Keeps Giving" with its electric sitars, and "Baby Ate My Eightball" threads their electronic fascinations into a lean rocker, the kinds of subtle innovations that prove that the Furries can still surprise as they enter their second decade. That reclaimed sense of unpredictability is as easy to embrace as the simple pop pleasures of Hey Venus! as a whole.

Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Allmusic.com

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Tracklist:

01. The Gateway Song (0:43)
02. Run-Away (2:53)
03. Show Your Hand (2:51)
04. The Gift That Keeps Giving (3:20)
05. Neo Consumer (2:04)
06. Into The Night (3:33)
07. Baby Ate My Eightball (3:35)
08. Carbon Dating (4:35)
09. Suckers! (4:05)
10. Battersea Odyssey (4:07)
11. Let The Wolves Howl At The Moon (4:41)

EAC log

Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 5 from 4. May 2009

EAC extraction logfile from 17. August 2010, 13:35

Super Furry Animals / Hey Venus!

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Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000

Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 128 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\Flac\flac.exe
Additional command line options : -T "DATE=%y" -T "GENRE=%m" -8 -V %s

TOC of the extracted CD

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Range status and errors

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Peak level 100.0 %
Range quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 744A37E1
Copy CRC 744A37E1
Copy OK

No errors occurred

AccurateRip summary

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All tracks accurately ripped

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DR log

foobar2000 1.2 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2013-12-16 18:02:46

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Analyzed: Super Furry Animals / Hey Venus!
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR6 -0.23 dB -7.97 dB 0:43 01-The Gateway Song
DR6 -0.08 dB -7.48 dB 2:53 02-Run-Away
DR6 -0.05 dB -7.53 dB 2:51 03-Show Your Hand
DR6 -0.20 dB -8.93 dB 3:20 04-The Gift That Keeps Giving
DR7 -0.11 dB -7.85 dB 2:04 05-Neo Consumer
DR7 -0.04 dB -8.96 dB 3:33 06-Into The Night
DR7 0.00 dB -8.20 dB 3:35 07-Baby Ate My Eightball
DR8 -0.41 dB -10.59 dB 4:35 08-Carbon Dating
DR7 0.00 dB -9.49 dB 4:05 09-Suckers!
DR7 -0.09 dB -8.90 dB 4:07 10-Battersea Odyssey
DR7 -0.17 dB -10.13 dB 4:41 11-Let The Wolves Howl At The Moon
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Number of tracks: 11
Official DR value: DR7

Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 948 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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