User Ratings (0) Your Rating. Inconvenience 6. The very latest chart stats about dark days/light years - peak chart position, weeks on chart, week-by-week chart run, catalogue number View All. Dark Days/Light Years, the ninth studio album by Super Furry Animals, was digitally released at 8pm on 16 March 2009 via the band's website, with a physical release following on the 21st of April on Rough Trade Records. Phil intentionally didn't give me the Super Furry Animals Dark Days/Light Years album to review because he went through a phase of giving me all the Welsh releases and thought I might think he's being Welshist on my ass. On Dark Days/Light Years, the Furries still have plenty of the latter, and that's more than enough. 12 tracks (59:54). Dark Days/Light Years. The Phantom Band. Here is Gardening Limited’s next collaborative post, Dark Days/Light Years: The Impact of Shade On Your Garden. Crazy Naked Girls 2. Listen to Dark Days / Light Years by Super Furry Animals on Deezer. December Solstice (Winter Solstice) is on Tuesday, December 21, 2021 at 3:59 pm in London. The neo-psych qualities are equal to some of the more modern, festival-occupying jam bands in existence today. The Welsh psychedelic pop legends Super Furry Animals return with 'Dark Days/Light Years', their ninth studio album. Sequenced with the deftness of a DJ set, Dark Days/Light Years is a journey that sees Super Furry Animals acknowledging and then transcending their influences with a kaleidoscopic intensity and almost indecent ease. Dark Days/Light Years, the ninth studio album by Super Furry Animals, was digitally released at 8pm on 16 March 2009 via the band's website, with a physical release following on the 21st of April on Rough Trade Records. However, ‘Crazy Naked Girls’ is arguably the most self-consciously wacky track on an album chock full of wigged-out pleasures. #66. 80. All orders are custom made and most ship worldwide within 24 hours. Fuzzy Logic. Purchasing Dark Days / Light Years from Amazon helps support Album of the Year. In terms of daylight, this day is 8 hours, 49 minutes shorter than on June Solstice. High quality Dark Days Light Years gifts and merchandise. Phantom Power. Mt. Listen on Apple Music. More Albums. Inaugural Trams 5. Where previous albums have seen the band experiment with extra instrumentation, this release is full of songs based on grooves rather than ensemble composition. Price 0,4$ The album's title is taken from a lyric in the song "Moped Eyes" ("dark days seem light years away"). In fact, aspects of Dark Days/Light Years resemble The Lips At War With the Mystics but with a lightness of touch palpably absent on that album. Label: Rough Trade - RTRADLP546 • Format: 2x, Vinyl 12 Super Furry Animals - Dark Days / Light Years (2009, 180gram, Vinyl) | Discogs Super Furry Animals (Artist) Dark Days/light Years CD Album Free shipping over £20. Storming back to centre stage after two years of side projects, Super Furry Animals can be proud of Dark Days/Light Years as a masterclass in cool and seemingly effortless psychedelia. Dark Days / Light Years has its fair share of ups and downs and, after several run-throughs, I still don't know where my head lies. AllMusic Rating. This liquid ease distinguishes Dark Days/Light Years as latter-day SFA, as does their continued reliance on showcasing each of their main singer/songwriters, giving this a bit of a democratic heft, but SFA avoid any of the respectable middlebrow bloat that taints the worthy Rings Around the World period. It's one of those frustrating albums which gives a little more with each listen but only in the smallest of increments. Super Furry Animals (Artist) Dark Days/light Years CD Album Free shipping over £20 Skip to content. Mwng. Or consider a donation? This is why we get winter. ’Dark Days/ Light Years’’ title is misleading, for the very thing this album boasts is its capability of seducing you from dark moments into sun-tinged ecstasy. The neo-psych qualities are equal to some of the more modern, festival-occupying jam bands in existence today. It’s the centrepiece to the closest SFA have come to producing a perfectly realised album. 'Crazy Naked Girls' sets out the band's stall early as spluttering beats give way to a series of monolithic riffs and relentless wah-wah guitar. Moped Eyes 4. Download Dark Days / Light Years. Checkmate Savage #68. Add to Custom List. View All. Then Brett went and reviewed the wrong pile of records leaving me his designated pile to review instead. Radiator. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2009 180gram Vinyl release of Dark Days / Light Years on Discogs. 517 comments 2 videos Despite this, it’s still a marvellous record and evidence that despite their increasing years, Super Furry Animals are a long way from being out of ideas. As a result, Dark Days/Light Years borrows ideas from various moments in SFA's career, offering new thrills as well. Some of us pick decorations for a garden with the best possible intentions, but we are all prone to making mistakes, sometimes the plants die no matter how much you care you’ve given to them. Inspired designs on t-shirts, posters, stickers, home decor, and more by independent artists and designers from around the world. In most locations north of Equator, the shortest day of the year is around this date. Dark Days/Light Years isn't, to my mind, the Furries' finest, but it's growing in stature with every listen. Guerrilla. Preview. 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Label: Rough Trade Release Date: 13/04/2009. Dark Days/Light Years finds Super Furry Animals plowing through a diverse amalgam of musical genres all the while retaining the ADD-fueled, mind-melting fun that is unmistakably their sound. by Dan Wale April 20th, 2009 Lest we forget, it is a matter of record that Super Furry Animals spent the marketing budget for their first album on a tank. Gone are the stoned countryish ballads that punctuated Love Kraft, and in their place are some great guitar-heavy stomps that draw on glam rock as a reference point. The album's title is taken from a lyric in the song "Moped Eyes" ("dark days seem light years … Dark Days/Light Years . You May Also Like. In Britain we don’t have any days when it is always light or always dark, but the days are longer during the times of the year when the North Pole is pointing towards the sun and shorter when it is pointing away from the sun. 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