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Rating: With this new release, the SFA bring to fruition a process that began years ago and position themselves as one of the most on-form bands of the moment. While the previous two efforts, despite flashes of genius, left many unimpressed, this Love Kraft should set things straight. What strikes from the first listens is the cohesiveness of the work: its organic nature. Everything is presented with a truly remarkable sense of proportions and internal harmonies. Thankfully, this does not detract from the individual compositions, which instead gradually shine in their bright individuality.
Starting with the first track "Zoom!" truly surprising: a neo-psychedelic ride whose elongated and lazy atmosphere expands to gradually become epic. The SFA is the only band that can afford the luxury of using a Catalan choir with impunity! Yet everything works perfectly like a well-oiled machine fueled by years of experience and creativity. Try it to believe it.
It is followed by "Atomik Lust" which reaffirms the prevailing atmosphere of the album: a sort of drug-induced clairvoyance, dreamlike wonder, like a reality perceived with slowed but powerful senses, richer, more colorful, and lively, yet at the same time, peaceful and expansive.
Breaking this atmosphere comes the first insistent track: however, it's merely an apparent disruption. The homage to the Beach Boys in "The Horn" is so referential and extravagant that it's not just a mere Beach Boys-style song but the Super Furry Animals playing the Beach Boys. Their world remains unbroken. Indeed, "Ohio Heat" resumes the formula invented specifically for Love Kraft, which could be summarized as a union of the ballad format with psychedelic nonchalance, all harmonized by the ability to produce the album in the most appropriate way, creating a warm and welcoming sound. The rest of the album continues at very high levels, now cradling ("Walk You Home"), now playing with influences and music history ("Back On a Roll"). Ending splendidly with just two tracks like "Cloudberries" and "Cabin Fever", two other sweet and enveloping tracks like the coils of a beguiling serpent.
If there's justice, the SFA will finally have their audience in Italy as well. So I guess not.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Zoom! (06:53)
Took you to a movie
But you moved away.
Froze into a standstill;
My feet turned to clay.
Looked into the sky for
some good advice,
A curious shadow
angle poised,
Circled twice then tossed
me a Carcass
Sold you a Dalmatian,
But the spots fell off,
Pooled them all together,
As a hairy moth,
Bred it with a lion
but it flew away,
Now it chases drones
around the sky;
Growls and grunts 'til you
feed it a blemish
I can't get enough of it
Kiss me with Apocalypse
An instant hit
Saw the Virgin Mary,
She was crying blood,
Tears congregate
Into a mighty flood,
Gave her some directions
to a specialist,
An eye doctor to help her cyst,
She took the wrong turn,
to the family planning.
Saw Lord Lucan riding Shergar
to the shops last night,
Couldn't be positive in
candle light,
Chased them in a Mustang
to a Quick Save till,
Searched for words to fit the bill,
Dug myslef a hole,
Then I fell into a vacuum
I can't get enough of it
Kiss me with Apocalypse
02 Atomik Lust (04:53)
If your moon should eclipse me
And block out my sun
Ride on typhoons and hurricanes
Watch skymap on re-run
Fine times to walk on wine
Heads down no stress
Find some atomik lust
Whenever, more or less
So long, the thrills long gone
No more duress
No more atomik lust
Whenever, more or less
Let's get our shit together
Insane with crackbrainz
I'd love to see the ending someday
Of Citizen Kane
Fine times to walk on wine
Heads down no stress
Find some atomik lust
Whenever, more or less
03 The Horn (03:01)
Go, go with the flow
Rock, rock the freeway
Drink, smoke, love enjoy the ride
Right or wrong
Hair down long
We vote her out
Nationwide screams and shouts
Go, go with the flow
Rock, rock the freeway
Billions of beeds feed on honey trees
Join the core
Add some more
You choose the places
Final resting place face to face
Twinkle twinkle
Rain and cars
Twinkle twinkle
City Arms
Twinkle twinkle
Rain and cars
Twinke twinkle
City Arms
Go, go with the flow
Rock, rock the freeway
06 Lazer Beam (04:55)
Introducing a radical new vision
No more imperial colonial bastards
No more romantic comedies
This is a fanfare introduction
To a high-powered purposful theme
Take a shine of our lazer beam
And we'll cleanse all the evil within you
(x4)
The resistance
In the distance
Creeping closer
Have no fear
Land in anguish
We escape it
In our rocket
Propelled spaceship
Take a shine of our lazer beam
And we'll cleanse all the evil within you
(x4)
Human being
Human doing
Human error
Human terror
Human nature
Human hate you
Human crying
Human leaving
Take a shine of our lazer beam
And we'll cleanse all the evil within you
(x4)
We will conquer utopia in space chariots
Take a shine of our lazer beam
And we'll cleanse all the evil within you
(x8)
Point your random finger
Point it to the sky
Point your random finger
Come on and testify
Human kind loves money
We just love to fly
(Fly, fly, fly)
So point your random finger
07 Frequency (04:39)
There goes my life
Ticking away
There goes my life
Slipping away
Long to sleep later
But alarms keep ringing
Take another leaflet from the stand
Put a steak on some land
Bring another baby to the world
Clone a boy then a girl
Famine and war
Babies and plague
Or angle-poise lamps
Limos and shades
Polar bears
Molting as the ice caps melt down
Take another leaflet from the stand
Put a steak on some land
Bring another baby to the world
Clone a boy then a girl
Hand in hand we can break the command
(x4)
Take another leaflet from the stand
Choose a color that's bland
Win the burger franchise for the world
Win the ranch, get the girl
You say history will be your judge
But the jury's whipped, gagged and drugged
Take away the blinkers from your eyes
11 Cloudberries (05:04)
1. humming bird
She came into the room
Didn't know her name
How I danced inside
No one to confide
In the darkest winter
I made a sound like a long lost humming bird
2. friends of friends
Took a CIRCLE of friends
To the village SQUARE
Old love TRIANGLES
Made us so aware
Of a distant era
But we're still here
To sing as humming birds
12 Cabin Fever (06:20)
Welcome back my friend
Where the hell have you been?
I can see, you can see, wait and see
The things that were once said
We'll put away to bed
Forget me not and learn I will
It's not so hard to love again
There's nothing we can't do
Time it passed me by when we thought of you
And never more we're evermore
The snail it moves so slow
As I look down below and from above
I see so clear this birdseye view
That we now fear some things we can't explain
Can't believe we're there again
Snap out of it my friend
No no no no no no no
We said goodbye today, don't need you anyway
Praise the Lord, send it on, pass the ammunition
The time when you were near we had nothing left to fear
But no more than just as if no reason why
If we are to change that we should still go on
It's nice to know you're here and we got there in the end
The future now is wide open and clear
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