Super Furry Animals - Love Kraft 2LP (Vinyl LP) PRE-ORDER

Expected Release Date: 24-October-2025 - This Pre-order will be shipped on or just before this date. Release dates are subject to alteration.

20TH ANNIVERSARY ALBUM RE-ISSUE ON DOUBLE BLACK VINYL AND DOUBLE CD - REMASTERED FOR 2025. (GATEFOLD VINYL/ DIGIPAK CD).

Originally released on Mon 22 August 2005, the Furries’ third and final album to be recorded by Epic Records, Love Kraft is to be reissued on double vinyl, 2CDs, including the 22-track bonus CD, Kiss Me With Apocalypse and digital formats on Fri 24 October 2025 via the Cardiff-based independent label, Strangetown Records. Four previously unheard tracks are drawn from the vaults, including the squidgy ELO-stomp of drummer, Daf Ieuan-led Rock ‘N’ Roll Flu, plus the distorted space-jam of Cae Marw, the band’s deep-bass sketch of Palo Alto and ghostly, percussive morsel of Bedw Arian.

The album followed six previous albums by the band, including their statement debut album, Fuzzy Logic in 1996, melding an attention-demanding mix of literary, narcotic and musical influences. Maintaining a shape that was ill-fitting in the jigsaw of other 90’s guitar bands, their follow-up, UK Top Ten album, Radiator brought the hooky squelch of the bona fide indie dancefloor classic, The International Language of Screaming. The next decade saw the release of the first Top 20-charting, Welsh language album, Mwng (2000), followed by further experimentation and commercial success with Rings Around The World (2001) and Phantom Power (2003).

Love Kraft’s sense of cohesion, collaboration and free-flow of rich harmony has been credited to the five-piece escaping Wales to record in the shimmering heat of Figueres, Catalunya. Bringing famed Beastie Boys producer, Mario Caldato Jr along with them for the ride, the travelling band’s stay in the Catalonian hometown of Salvador Dali included found sounds, boozy petrol stations, gastronomic revelations and, finally, a rich album of strings, synths and opulent vocal harmonies.

While eventually finding their way to Baha, near to Rio di Janeiro to mix the album Love Kraft’s story began in Wales and Pleasure Foxxx Studios, where the band began to craft the album’s songs. Embracing the landmark of a seventh album, notably coming after the 2004 release of their first ‘best of…’ package, Songbook: The Singles, Vol. 1, Super Furry Animals pooled ideas and affected further democracy in their songwriting, taking a load off traditional lead-writer and front man, Gruff Rhys, and sharing in lead vocal duties (aside from the microphone-averse bassist, Guto Pryce).

Love Kraft was the first Super Furry Animals album recorded to hard disc instead of multi-track tape, and found the band typically explorative and open to happenstance. Zoom’s opening splash into the recording studio’s swimming pool is accompanied by the on-location, pool table samples found elsewhere on the album.

Updated packaging features the original, meticulously built diorama design by long-time collaborator Pete Fowler. Constructed by hand in his studio, complete with bulb-lit illumination, then photographed, the sleeve’s depiction of a monolith-rich desert landscape reflects the sense of other space and time depicted by Love Kraft’s woozy songs. The final sleeve design again comes courtesy of Mark James.

Double vinyl splits:
A1) Zoom! A2) Atomik Lust A3) The Horn A4) Ohio Heat
B1) Walk You Home B2) Lazer Beam B3) Frequency B4) Oi Frango
C1) Psyclone! C2) Back On A Roll C3) Cloudberries C4) Cabin Fever
D1) *surprise*

CD1: 1) Zoom! 2) Atomik Lust 3) The Horn 4) Ohio Heat 5) Walk You Home 6) Lazer Beam 7) Frequency 8) Oi Frango 9) Psyclone! 10) Back On A Roll 11) Cloudberries 12) Cabin Fever 13) Sunny Seville 14) Rock ‘n’ Roll Flu 15) Never More 16) Colonise The Moon *all tracks are the 2025 Remaster

CD2: 1) Zoom! (Stiwdio Ofn Demo) 2) Atomik Lust (Pleasure Foxxx Demo) 3) The Horn (Pleasure Foxxx Demo) 4) Ohio Heat (Stiwdio Ofn Demo) 5) Lazer Beam (Pleasure Foxxx Demo) 6) Frequency (Stiwdio Ofn Demo) 7) Oi Frango (Pleasure Foxxx Demo) 8) Psyclone! The SFA cut (Pleasure Foxxx Demo) 9) Back On A Roll (Pleasure Foxxx Demo) 10) Cabin Fever (Pleasure Foxxx Demo) 11) Cae Marw (Pleasure Foxxx Demo) 12) The Gateway Song (Stiwdio Ofn Demo) 13) Rock ‘n’ Roll Flu (Pleasure Foxxx Demo) 14) Never More (Pleasure Foxxx Demo) 15) Palo Alto (Pleasure Foxxx Demo) 16) These Bones (Pleasure Foxxx Demo) 17) Bing Bong (Stiwdio Ofn Demo) 18) Bedw Arian (Pleasure Foxxx Demo) 19) The Gateway Song (Rough Mix) 20) Psyclone! (Future Force) 21) Psyclone! (The Flaming Lips) 22) Zoom! (uncut master take)