Radiator (album)

For other uses, see Radiator (disambiguation).

Radiator

Studio album by Super Furry Animals

Released

25 August 1997

Recorded

1997

Genre

Alternative rock

Length

46:54

Label

Creation, Flydaddy

Producer

Gorwel Owen & Super Furry Animals

Super Furry Animals chronology

Fuzzy Logic
(1996)

Radiator
(1997)

Ice Hockey Hair
(1998)

Singles from Radiator

"Hermann ♥'s Pauline"
Released: 24 May 1997
"The International Language of Screaming"
Released: 12 July 1997
"Play It Cool"
Released: 22 September 1997
"Demons"
Released: 17 November 1997

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Pitchfork Media	(8.6/10)^[2]
PopMatters	(favourable)^[3]
Tiny Mix Tapes	^[4]

Radiator is the second album by Super Furry Animals. It was released in August 1997 by Creation Records, and later the same year in America under Flydaddy Records. It peaked at #8 on the UK charts.^[5] In 2005, it was reissued with a bonus disc of other tracks from the time.

In 2000 Q magazine placed Radiator at number 73 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever.

Singer Gruff Rhys has described Radiator as "more interesting" than the band's debut Fuzzy Logic with the group taking advantage of producer Gorwel Owen's "Atari computers, and banks of old vintage synths" to create an album which was "musically ... much more adventurous".^[6]

The track 'Download' repeatedly appeared on the hit Welsh TV Show 'Lois' about a young teenage girl struggling to come to terms with her anorexia.

Release and reception

Stylus Magazine named Radiator in a list of "Ten essential albums" released by Creation Records in a 2003 article about the label.^[7]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Super Furry Animals.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Furryvision™" (Instrumental)	1:25
2.	"The Placid Casual"	2:49
3.	"The International Language of Screaming"	2:14
4.	"Demons"	5:12
5.	"Short Painkiller" (Instrumental)	0:38
6.	"She's Got Spies"	4:43
7.	"Play It Cool"	3:16
8.	"Hermann ♥'s Pauline"	4:43
9.	"Chupacabras"	1:26
10.	"Torra Fy Ngwallt Yn Hir"	1:54
11.	"Bass Tuned to D.E.A.D"	3:20
12.	"Down a Different River"	5:37
13.	"Download"	3:19
14.	"Mountain People"	6:14

2005 reissue bonus CD
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Mu-Tron"	3:16
2.	"nO.K"	2:12
3.	"Foxymusic"	3:49
4.	"Hit & Run"	3:29
5.	"Wrap It Up"	3:25

Some American releases were packaged with Out Spaced, the bands 1998 b-sides collection.

Personnel

Gruff Rhys- vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, Moog, claps
Huw Bunford- electric guitar, backing vocals
Cian Ciaran- electronics, Rhodes piano, piano, backing vocals, claps
Guto Pryce- bass, sub-bass, claps
Dafydd Ieuan- drums, percussion, backing vocals, piano

Les Morrison- banjo (Demons)
Gorwel Owen- E-Bow, samples, electric harpsichord, backwards Rhodes
Martin Smith- trumpet
Simon James- tenor sax and flute
Andrew Frizzell- trombone and alto sax

The Electra Strings:
Sonia Slany- violin
Jules Singleton- violin
Clair Arster- viola
Dinah Beamish- cello

References

↑ Allmusic review
↑ Pitchfork Media review
↑ PopMatters review
↑ Tiny Mix Tapes review
↑ "Search Results -- Albums". http://www.everyhit.com. 2008-03-24. Retrieved 2008-03-24. External link in |work= (help)
↑ Martin, Piers (April 2008). "Album by album: Super Furry Animals". Uncut 131: 70–72.
↑ Plagenhoef, Scott (2003-09-01). "Creation Records - Label Profile". Stylus Magazine. Retrieved 2010-01-05.

External links

Radiator at YouTube (streamed copy where licensed)

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! Dark Days/Light Years

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" "Mt."

DVDs	Rings Around the World Phantom Power Songbook: The Singles, Vol. 1

Related articles	Discography Cardiff music scene Liverpool Sound Collage Ankst Creation Records Ffa Coffi Pawb Neon Neon The Peth Pete Fowler Keiichi Tanaami Placid Casual

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