Super Furry Animals – Phantom Power (3 CD)

Produced by the band, ‘Phantom Power’, celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2023,keeps a much lower profile than the band’s previous work.The album, for the most part, is awash with pedal steel, acoustic guitars and vocal harmonies. But if you think the creative juices have ceased, you could barely be more wrong. Gruff Rhys’ songwriting moves a step forward on ‘Phantom Power’, with playful story-based lyrics about turtles, mingers, ninjas and cabbages contrasting with lines about death, radiation and war. This remastered and expanded 3CD set features loads of bonus material, including out-takes, demos, and live versions, much of it previously unreleased.