Dark Days/Light Years

Super Furry Animals

Dark Days/Light Years

Welsh psychedelic rock act's ninth studio album, with a guest slot for Franz Ferdinand guitarist Nick McCarthy

ADM rating[?]

7.3

Label
Rough Trade
UK Release date
13/04/2009
  1. 9.0 |   Clash

    Has joy in abundance. It’s the best thing they’ve recorded in years. It’s possibly the best thing they’ve recorded ever.
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  2. 9.0 |   No Ripcord

    Most bands would do well to create something this accomplished on their second album, let alone their ninth.
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  3. 9.0 |   The Quietus

    Easily their best work since Rings Around The World, it's also an album built to last... Super Furry Animals have their mojo back.
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  4. 8.3 |   Pitchfork

    As free-wheeling and inspired as the group has sounded in years.
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  5. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Marks a departure from the traditional songwriting and joyously lush orchestral swathes that typified SFA's last two albums.
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  6. 8.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    Leaps around as many styles as any other SFA album, from the Bollywood-flavoured ""The Very Best of Neil Diamond"" to the childlike ""Inaugural Trams"".
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  7. 8.0 |   NME

    SFA have made another enormously enjoyable record, but one that is unlikely to ‘do an Elbow’ and suddenly make them a serious mainstream proposition again.
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  8. 8.0 |   The Scotsman

    Continue to excel at eclecticism and reach for the lyrical ideas other bands don't have the imagination to access.
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  9. 8.0 |   The Sunday Times

    Eccentric? Possibly. But, more important, these are songs of life-affirming beauty and novelty.
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  10. 8.0 |   Uncut

    The charm here is in hearing a veteran band who still really enjoy the process of getting in a studio and playing music together. And it’s great, still.
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  11. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    Ninth studio album, but it has more spark and invention than most teen bands manage on their debuts.
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  12. 8.0 |   The List

    Melodies of such sheer beauty that they’d make a glass eye cry.
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  13. 6.0 |   Observer Music Monthly

    Re-embracing psychedelic pop with the vim of a bunch of bearded men who really aren't in showbiz for the opportunity to be papped.
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  14. 5.0 |   Spin

    Surprisingly subdued: Affecting a newly laid-back, yacht-rock delivery.
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  15. 4.0 |   The Independent

    Sounds like a series of riffs developed to a point of adequacy, but barely beyond.
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  16. 4.0 |   The Irish Times

    A collection of half-baked songs, and has no focal point, cohesion or any bona-fide standouts.
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