New Super Furry Animals (Feat. Nick McCarthy) - "Inaugural Trams"

SFA have been promising so many things lately: a new album in three days titled Dark Days/Light Years, featuring a collection of "riffs and grooves" with no pedal steel or country rock (Daf is now phobic), zero acoustic ballads (for now), and a song with Franz Ferdinand's Nick McCarthy on "doing a German rap" (duh). So many of those things come true this morning. German raps may seem an alien choice for this Welsh/Scotch collab, until you dig into "Inaugural Trams" krauty bounce at which point it is clearly the international language of choice.

Super Furry Animals - "Inaugural Trams" (MP3)

The album's titled Dark Days/Light Years and it's out digitally via the band's website on 3/16, which is where you'll be able to stream a full-album live performance that day at 8PM GMT. You'll also be able to pre-order the physical release then, which is out 4/13 via Rough Trade.

If you go to the main page now, you can click around for weird video bits from recent days in the studio. Or something.

Tracklist:
01 "Crazy Naked Girls"
02 "Mt"
03 "Moped Eyes"
04 "Inaugural Trams"
05 "Inconvenience"
06 "Cardiff In The Sun"
07 "The Very Best Of Neil Diamond"
08 "Helium Hearts"
09 "White Socks / Flip Flops"
10 "Where Do You Wanna Go?"
11 "Lliwiau Llachar"
12 "Pric"

Posted at 10:22 AM by amrit in MP3
Tags: Franz Ferdinand | Super Furry Animals

4 Comments

Looks like the Carrot Rope video by Pavement

Posted by: Jesus at 03/13/09 11:12 AM | Reply
Score = 2

sorta looks like theyre trying to pull something like the cover of Help! but are even more confused than the Beatles were

Posted by: YHF1219 at 03/13/09 12:39 PM | Reply
Score = 2

SFA is the best band of the last 12 years. Simply stunning songwriting. They need more credit.

Posted by: Sam at 03/13/09 1:01 PM | Reply
Score = 5

Hear freaking Hear. My favorite touring act not called the Walkmen. They're fantastic live.

Posted by: Seitz in reply to Sam's comment at 03/13/09 1:17 PM | Reply
Score = 0