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Super Furry Animals covering Ray of Light by Madonna
The song starts off with treated acoustic guitars picking out the opening motif, as hits of spacey keyboard and a giddy bass vibration follow in its wobbly wake.
Then Gruff comes in, all pastoral and forlorn, singing his weary stoner’s ode:
Zephyr in the sky at night, I wonder.... do my tears of mourning... sink beneath the sun……
Here, the wash of electronics begins to slowly peel away from the guitars and bass, and spiral into their own off-kilter orbit as Gruff continues to wax lyrical:
She's got herself a universe, gone quickly......
Meanwhile the drums are rattling in and the bass is building to an effervescent throb – the sound is swelling with pulses racing and eyes a-flicker.
For the call of thunder….. threatens everyone......
And as the bass and drums synchronise, the keyboards take control and begin to weave their own elastic and impatient acid pattern
But instead of the vocals gathering pace, Gruff goes all reverbed and slo-mo as he hits the chorus and sings his best falsetto yet:
And I feel..... Like I've just got home......
Of course the band are following their own demented route into tekno abandon now, adding splashes of harmonica and wah-wah to the mix, as we find Gruff
Trying to remember...... Where it all began
And now we’re trapped in an uncontrollable SFA glitterbeat as effects swoop in to spike the listeners drink and dance naked on his head.
Gruff is lost too in the bewildering maze of electronics around him as signals rush from speaker to speaker and low frequency BASS-FEAR rises up to swallow him whole.
But he is holding on, pining and
Waiting for the time when......... . Earth shall be as one
And as the tekno train rolls out of Furrytown you can hear him intoning his mantra to tea-time lesbianism over and over
And I feel..... Anna Friel........ |
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