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''Love Kraft'' is the seventh
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by Welsh
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, released on 22 August 2005 through
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in the United Kingdom. The album was recorded in Spain with producer
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and was something of a departure for the band, with all members contributing songs and lead vocals alongside
Gruff Rhys Gruffudd Maredudd Bowen Rhys (; born 18 July 1970) is a Welsh musician, composer, producer, filmmaker and author. He performs solo and with several bands, including Super Furry Animals, which obtained mainstream success in the 1990s. He formed ...
who had been main songwriter for the Super Furries until this point. In selecting tracks for ''Love Kraft'' a conscious effort was made by the band not to choose songs on their individual merit but rather to pick those which went well together in order to create as cohesive an album as possible. The album's name was taken from a
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, Love Craft, near the
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offices of the Super Furries' management team and is also a nod to American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Critical response was generally positive with some reviews claiming the album was the best of the group's career. However, a few reviewers expressed reservations that ''Love Kraft'' was "merely a very good Super Furry Animals effort" and was not as impressive as the band's previous records. The track "
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" was released as a single and reached #28 in the
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.


Recording

''Love Kraft'' was recorded in
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, a small city in
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, Spain. According to Rhys the band found themselves in the "unusual" position of recording their seventh album together and began to look at groups who had made many records, such as
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and
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. These bands had made "foreign records" (''
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'' and ''
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'', respectively) so the Super Furries decided to do the same although on "a much tighter budget." Leaving their usual
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studio behind had an effect on the songs according to Rhys: The band did a lot of experimenting and arranging in Cardiff before going into the studio, as a result of which ''Love Kraft'' was recorded in just three weeks.
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also attributes the album sessions' speedy conclusion to producer
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who was very good at keeping the group together and on the right track. The album represented a departure from the band's previous working methods: although all five members had always contributed to the development of the songs,
Gruff Rhys Gruffudd Maredudd Bowen Rhys (; born 18 July 1970) is a Welsh musician, composer, producer, filmmaker and author. He performs solo and with several bands, including Super Furry Animals, which obtained mainstream success in the 1990s. He formed ...
had been the main songwriter. On ''Love Kraft'' this was no longer the case, as Rhys,
Huw Bunford Huw "Bunf" Bunford (born Huw Cennydd Bunford; 15 September 1967 in Cardiff, Wales) is a musician best known as the guitarist in Super Furry Animals. Biography Bunford studied at Lanchester Polytechnic (now Coventry University) and worked as a te ...
,
Dafydd Ieuan Dafydd Ieuan (born 1 March 1969) is a Welsh musician and producer, best known as the drummer with the band Super Furry Animals, The Peth and The Earth (band). Ieuan played with Gruff Rhys in their early band Ffa Coffi Pawb. He was a drummer f ...
and
Cian Ciaran Cian Ciarán (born 16 June 1976) is a Welsh musician best known as the keyboard player in the band Super Furry Animals. In addition to keyboards, he plays guitar and drums and sings, and is a songwriter, composer and producer. Career Cian was b ...
all contributed songs and lead vocals. The group also abandoned their usual practise of picking songs on their individual merit, instead choosing tracks that would work well together and "create a sound that was as cohesive as possible". Of the "30-40" songs written by band members the group chose "the more introspective ones" which meant that some of Rhys's tracks were left off the album as they were "energetic and poppy" and "didn't really fit in with everybody else's work". Several ' found sounds' were recorded and used on the album including the buzzing of a
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ian
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, the sound of pool balls being rubbed against each other and a recording of
Huw Bunford Huw "Bunf" Bunford (born Huw Cennydd Bunford; 15 September 1967 in Cardiff, Wales) is a musician best known as the guitarist in Super Furry Animals. Biography Bunford studied at Lanchester Polytechnic (now Coventry University) and worked as a te ...
jumping into a swimming pool. The latter opens the album, preceding the intro to "Zoom!". ''Love Kraft'' was mixed in a suburb of
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at the request of Brazilian born Caldato. According to Rhys the band toyed with the idea of using
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musical elements and had fantasies of "
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doing backing vocals, and getting Rogerio Duprat to arrange the strings" but ultimately thought it would be a "bit too embarrassing" and actively tried not to make a "Brazilian sounding" record. This point was echoed by
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in an interview with Birmingham's ''
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'' although he conceded that "in Rio music is everywhere. The beats and rhythms are non-stop so that probably seeped into our minds as a subconscious influence." The album is named after a
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, Lovecraft Limited, near the Ankst Management offices on Cowbridge Road, Cardiff and is also a reference to
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horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. In a 2005 interview with ''
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'',
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explained that the name also stems from the fact that the record has "a general warm glow of love" and that it was originally conceived as a "love record" before "some of the lyrics went completely off the rails".


Release

''Love Kraft'' was released on CD,
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and as a digital download on 22 August 2005 in the
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and was the band's last release for
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's Epic imprint before they moved to independent label Rough Trade. The album reached #19 in the
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. In
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the album was released on 13 September 2005 by Beggars Banquet US. "
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" was the only track to be released as a single from the album, reaching #28 in the
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.


Critical response

The album received a generally positive reaction from critics. British newspaper ''
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'' described ''Love Kraft'' as the band's "best album yet" and musicOMH claimed it to be "the greatest realisation of the Super Furry vision to date". ''
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'' was similarly impressed calling the album "perhaps the defining record of
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career" while Yahoo Music UK thought ''Love Kraft'' was "perfect pop". The ''
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'' had reservations however, stating that although the album is "easily as engaging and full of the wild possibilities of pop music as anything else in their peerless canon" it is "not quite up there with ''
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'' due to its brace of shonky ballad filler ("Cloudberries" and "Cabin Fever")". Writing for
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, Stephen Thomas Erlewine was largely impressed with ''Love Kraft'' but admitted to being disappointed that it is "merely a very good Super Furry Animals effort, with few surprises outside of its alluring sleek". The band's singer,
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, has described the album as "the most beautiful record we've made ... really orchestral and fairly timeless".


Accolades


Tour

The Super Furry Animals played numerous festivals in
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prior to ''Love Kraft's'' release including
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's
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,
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, the
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in
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and the V Festival, warming up for these dates with a small show at Barry Memorial Hall on 22 July 2005. A gig at
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in
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on 8 July 2005 went ahead despite coming just one day after the 7/7 bombings caused
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to cancel their show at the venue. Following the release of ''Love Kraft'' in the
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the Super Furry Animals played
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on the
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before embarking on an 11 date tour of the UK and
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, beginning at the
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in
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on 14 September 2005 and ending on 27 September at
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's Olympia Theatre venue. A month long tour of
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and the
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followed, starting on 1 November in
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and ending in
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on 1 December. The band experienced a "very different atmosphere" at initial shows on the Love Kraft tour, when they played the "slow" songs from the album. This contributed to their decision to make follow up ''
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'' a "rowdy pop record".


Track listing


Personnel

The following people contributed to ''Love Kraft'':


Band

*
Gruff Rhys Gruffudd Maredudd Bowen Rhys (; born 18 July 1970) is a Welsh musician, composer, producer, filmmaker and author. He performs solo and with several bands, including Super Furry Animals, which obtained mainstream success in the 1990s. He formed ...
– vocals, guitar, harmonica *
Huw Bunford Huw "Bunf" Bunford (born Huw Cennydd Bunford; 15 September 1967 in Cardiff, Wales) is a musician best known as the guitarist in Super Furry Animals. Biography Bunford studied at Lanchester Polytechnic (now Coventry University) and worked as a te ...
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, backing vocals, lead vocals on "The Horn" and "Back on a Roll" *
Guto Pryce Guto Dafydd Pryce ( Welsh pronunciation: ; born 4 September 1972) is a Welsh musician best known as bass guitar player and songwriter in the band Super Furry Animals. With them he has recorded nine UK Albums Chart Top 25 studio albums, plus num ...
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*
Cian Ciaran Cian Ciarán (born 16 June 1976) is a Welsh musician best known as the keyboard player in the band Super Furry Animals. In addition to keyboards, he plays guitar and drums and sings, and is a songwriter, composer and producer. Career Cian was b ...
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, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Walk You Home" and "Cabin Fever" *
Dafydd Ieuan Dafydd Ieuan (born 1 March 1969) is a Welsh musician and producer, best known as the drummer with the band Super Furry Animals, The Peth and The Earth (band). Ieuan played with Gruff Rhys in their early band Ffa Coffi Pawb. He was a drummer f ...
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, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Atomik Lust" and "Cabin Fever"


Additional musicians

*Kris Jenkins –
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*Nadia Griffiths – female vocal on "Walk You Home" *Debi McLean – space vocal on "Lazer Beam" *Jonathan Thomas –
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on "Back on a Roll" *Jordi –
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, handclaps *Côr CF1 – Choir *David Ralicke –
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*Sarah Clarke –
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*Tracy Holloway –
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*Jeff Daly –
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*Matthew Draper –
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*Marcus Holloway –
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*Clare Raybould –
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*Brian Wright – violin *Elspeth Cowey – violin *Ellen Blair – violin *Amanda Britton – violin *Sally Herbert – violin *Laura Melhuish – violin *Gill Morley – violin *Jacqueline Norrie – violin *Will Morris Jones – choral arrangements *Osian Gwynedd – choral arrangements *
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– choral, string and wind arrangements *Super Furry Animals – string and wind arrangements


Recording personnel

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Mario Caldato Jr. Mario Caldato Jr. (born February 24, 1961), also known as Mario C., is a Brazilian-born record producer and studio engineer best known for his work with Beastie Boys, Jack Johnson in the US, Marcelo D2 and Seu Jorge in Brazil. Early life Cal ...
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, mixing,
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*Super Furry Animals – production, mixing,
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mix *Richard Jackson – engineering (Stir Studios) *Greg Jackman – engineering (The Dairy) *Jordi – recording assistant (Musician) *Jordan – recording assistant (Musician) *Luizao Dantas – recording assistant (AR Studios) *Leo Moreira – recording assistant (AR Studios) *Sam Wetmore – surround sound mix


Artwork

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Pete Fowler Pete Fowler (born 1969 in Cardiff) is a Welsh artist best known for his artwork for the Welsh band Super Furry Animals and his Monsterism toys and goods. He is a freelance illustrator and "monster maker" inspired by animals, music, folklore, my ...
– artwork *Mark James – artwork *Alexis West –
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*Leon West – photography


Album chart positions


References


External links


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