Fuzzy Logic (album)

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Fuzzy Logic
Studio album by Super Furry Animals
Released	May 22, 1996
Recorded	1996
Genre	Alternative Rock Britpop Psychedelic Rock
Length	43:47
Label	Creation
Producer	Gorwel Owen, Super Furry Animals
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Pitchfork Media (8.4/10) link Rolling Stone link
Super Furry Animals chronology
Moog Droog (1995) Fuzzy Logic (1996) Radiator (1997)
Singles from Fuzzy Logic
"Hometown Unicorn" Released: 26 February, 1996 "God! Show Me Magic" Released: 29 April, 1996 "Something 4 the Weekend" Released: 1 July, 1996 "If You Don't Want Me to Destroy You" Released: 30 September, 1996

Fuzzy Logic is the debut album by the Super Furry Animals. It was listed in Q Magazine's Best British Albums Ever in July 2004, and in the same magazine's Top 10 Britpop Albums Ever in December 1996 and features in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die^[1]. It contains two top 20 hits in "If You Don't Want Me to Destroy You" and "Something 4 the Weekend"; it also contains the singles "God! Show Me Magic" and "Hometown Unicorn". It reached #23 in the UK Albums Chart on release.^[2]

The name comes from a mathematical term which describes terms that are easy to understand by humans but are not so easily understood by computers.

In a 2008 interview with Uncut Gruff Rhys described the process of making the album:

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We'd signed a deal and we were sort of blagging a bit ... We'd heard about Rockfield Studios and we wanted to record there because they had jacuzzis and you got three meals a day, all the wrong reasons for going to a studio.[3]

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Although the album was conceived as a reaction to Britpop which the band felt represented a "conservative backwards movement in music" they soon realised that they were in an "old 70's studio making [a] 70's rock album".^[3]

Former members Rhys Ifans and Dic Ben contributed to the track "Long Gone" by leaving an answerphone message which plays as the song comes to a close.^[4]

Fuzzy Logic is often noted for its cover depicting a variety of photos of international drug smuggler Howard Marks. Marks, who is paid tribute to on the song "Hangin' with Howard Marks", visited Rockfield during the making of the album at the band's request "wearing leather trousers and a cloak with a big entourage".^[3] As a result, the band later struck up a friendship with Marks, and are referenced in his autobiography Mr Nice.

In 2005, the album was reissued with a second bonus disc containing additional tracks recorded around the same time period as the album.

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Reissue Bonus CD 3 Personnel 3.1 SFA 3.2 Additional musicians 3.3 Credits 4 References

[edit] Track listing

1. "God! Show Me Magic" – 1:50
2. "Fuzzy Birds" – 2:27
3. "Something For the Weekend" – 2:50
4. "Frisbee" – 2:21
5. "Hometown Unicorn" – 3:33
6. "Gathering Moss" – 3:22
7. "If You Don't Want Me to Destroy You" – 3:17
8. "Bad Behaviour" – 4:26
9. "Mario Man" – 4:07
10. "Hangin (with Howard Marks)" – 4:20
11. "Long Gone" – 5:20
12. "For Now and Ever" – 3:32

[edit] Reissue Bonus CD

1. "Organ yn Dy Geg" – 2:56
2. "Crys Ti" – 1:56
3. "Lazy Life (Of No Fixed Identity)" – 2:15
4. "Death by Melody" – 2:32
5. "Waiting to Happen" – 2:34

[edit] Personnel

[edit] SFA

• Gruff Rhys – Vocals, Guitars, Analogues, Claps
• Dafydd Ieuan - Drums, Percussion, Vocals, Piano, Claps
• Cian Ciaran – Keyboards, Analogues, Vocals, Claps
• Guto Pryce - Bass Guitar, Hammond, Claps, Analogues
• Huw Bunford – Guitars, Vocals, E-Bow, Cello, Claps

[edit] Additional musicians

• Gorwel Owen - Piano, Hammond, Rhodes
• Jez Francis - Piano on "God! Show Me Magic"
• Matthew Everett - Violin
• Chris Williams - Violin
• Helen Sparro - Viola
• Catherine Tanner - Cello
• Martin Smith - Trumpet, Tenor Horn
• Simon James - Saxophone, Flute
• Andrew Frizell - Saxophone, Recorder, Trombone
• Lindsay Higgs - Balalaika
• Rhys Ifans & Dic Ben - Answering machine message on "Long Gone"

[edit] Credits

• SFA - Songs, Production
• Gorwel Owen - Production
• Andy Wilkinson - Engineering
• Nick Brine - Assistance
• Brian Cannon @ Microdot - Design, Art Direction
• Toby Egelnick - Inside Design, Layout

[edit] References

v • d • e Super Furry Animals Gruff Rhys • Huw Bunford • Guto Pryce • Cian Ciaran • Dafydd Ieuan Rhys Ifans • Dic Ben Studio albums Fuzzy Logic • Radiator • Guerrilla • Mwng • Rings Around the World • Phantom Power • Love Kraft • Hey Venus! Compilations and remix albums Out Spaced • Phantom Phorce • Songbook: The Singles, Vol. 1 EPs Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (In Space) • Moog Droog • Ice Hockey Hair • Slow Life Singles "Hometown Unicorn" • "God! Show Me Magic" • "Something 4 the Weekend" • "If You Don't Want Me to Destroy You" • "The Man Don't Give a Fuck" (first release) • "Hermann ♥'s Pauline" • "The International Language of Screaming" • "Play It Cool" • "Demons" • "Northern Lites" • "Fire in My Heart" • "Do or Die" • "Ysbeidiau Heulog" • "Juxtapozed with U" • "(Drawing) Rings Around the World" • "It's Not the End of the World?" • "Golden Retriever" • "Hello Sunshine" • "The Man Don't Give a Fuck" (second release) • "Lazer Beam" • "Show Your Hand" • "Run-Away" • "The Gift That Keeps Giving" • DVDs and videos Rings Around the World • Phantom Power • Songbook: The Singles, Vol. 1 Related articles Ankst • Creation Records • Ffa Coffi Pawb • Neon Neon • Pete Fowler • Placid Casual