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Super Furry Animals
The Furries retreat to Wales to plot their next move. With hindsight, they probably shouldn’t have done it next to a runway…
“We did Radiator in a little studio in Anglesey at the end of an RAF runway, so we’d be recording and a Harrier Jump Jet would fly low overhead and we’d have to do it again. There was a lot of personal shit going on - we had to go through all the rock clichés one by one - but that was the album I enjoyed most, because we weren’t hiring big-shot engineers.”
“This was before we got to grips with technology. We didn’t start using samplers, sequencers and clicks until our third album. It was still live, ‘1-2-3-4’, and if you started too fast you’d die about half a minute in! ‘Mountain People’ isn’t my best drumming, but it’s one of the first songs that evolved into a real groove.”
“I can’t be objective about whether it’s our best record. I was so involved in it, to the point where there’s nothing I don’t know about the process.”
