Mwng

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Mwng

Studio album by Super Furry Animals
Released	15 May 2000 (UK) 20 June 2000 (US)
Recorded	Ofn, Llanfaelog. 2000
Genre	Britpop
Length	40:30 (without bonus tracks) 59:16 (with bonus tracks)
Label	Placid Casual Recordings PLC03CD
Producer(s)	Gorwel Owen and Super Furry Animals
All Music Guide link NME link Pitchfork by Matt LeMay: link by Marc Hogan: 6/7/2005 Rolling Stone 8/17/2005
Super Furry Animals chronology
Guerrilla (1999)	Mwng (2000)	Rings Around the World (2001)

Mwng (Welsh: Mane) is an album by Super Furry Animals. The album is sung entirely in Welsh and is claimed to be the most successful Welsh language album ever. It reached Number 11 in the UK album charts and was released on the Super Furry Animals' own Placid Casual record label (partially because the band had just left Creation Records and had yet to sign for Epic). As a result of its success, it was mentioned in Parliament by Paul Flynn and Elfyn Llwyd.

Y Teimlad ("The Feeling") is a cover of a Datblygu song, whilst Ysbeidiau Heulog ("Sunny Spells") was released as a white vinyl single in 2000 (backed with 'Charge'). Ysbediau Heulog was featured on Super Furry Animals' greatest hits compilation, Songbook: The Singles Vol. 1 in 2004.

[edit] Track listing

"Drygioni" ("Badness") – 1:23
"Ymaelodi Â'r Ymylon" ("Banished To The Periphery") – 2:57
"Y Gwyneb Iau" ("Liverface") – 3:54
"Dacw Hi" ("There She Is") – 4:18
"Nythod Cacwn" ("Beehives") – 3:46
"Pan Ddaw'r Wawr" ("When Dawn Breaks") – 4:29
"Ysbeidiau Heulog" ("Sunny Intervals") – 2:51
"Y Teimlad" ("The Feeling") – 4:40
"Sarn Helen" – 4:18
"Gwreiddiau Dwfn" / "Mawrth Oer Ar y Blaned Neifion" ("Deep Roots" / "A Cold March On the plantet Neptune") – 7:57

A special edition of the album released in America also featured a bonus disc, Mwng Bach, comprising the following tracks previously released as b-sides to various UK singles issued by the band:

Cryndod Yn Dy Lais – 2:48
Trons Mr Urdd – 4:37
Calimero – 2:23
Sali Mali – 4:35
(Nid) Hon Yw'r Gân Sy'n Mynd I Achub Yr Iaith – 3:53