“Slow Life” by Super Furry Animals

"Slow Life" comes from Phantom Power, Super Furry Animals' sixth studio album, which the Welsh indie rockers released on Epic in July 2003, with the writing credit shared five ways between Gruff Rhys, Huw Bunford, Cian Ciaran, Dafydd Ieuan and Guto Pryce. Strings fill it out, Ellen Blair, Gill Morley and Brian Wright on violin and Marcus Holdaway on cello, with Sally Herbert also among the players and Chris Jenkins on percussion.

The band cut the album at AV Happenings, their own studio in Cardiff, and for once ran the sessions themselves, handling both production and engineering, with Mario Caldato Jr. mixing. They'd planned a ten-song concept record in a single D-A-D-D-A-D tuning, then scrapped the idea rather than box themselves in, and what came out roams from country rock to techno. Plenty of critics called it the best album they'd made.

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