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Super Furry Animals review – stirring reunion showcases immaculate songcraft
MusicMusic News•May 10, 2026 at 2:02 PMNational

Super Furry Animals review – stirring reunion showcases immaculate songcraft

By Peter Ross•The Guardian Music

Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow The Welsh band with a weird edge mostly let their formidable music speak for itself, lent a transcendent power by frontman Gruff Rhys’s rich voiceIn the gloom of an underlit Barrowlands stage, a man in black is holding a large inflatable phone to his ear and chanting these words: “SFA OK. SFA OK.”The man is Gruff Rhys. The band is Super Furry Animals. And the song, Wherever I Lay My Phone (That’s My Home), allows them to reintroduce themselves at this, their second gig after 10 years away. Continue reading...

Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow
The Welsh band with a weird edge mostly let their formidable music speak for itself, lent a transcendent power by frontman Gruff Rhys’s rich voice

In the gloom of an underlit Barrowlands stage, a man in black is holding a large inflatable phone to his ear and chanting these words: “SFA OK. SFA OK.”

The man is Gruff Rhys. The band is Super Furry Animals. And the song, Wherever I Lay My Phone (That’s My Home), allows them to reintroduce themselves at this, their second gig after 10 years away.

Continue reading...

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