Love Kraft

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studio album
First released:
Sep 13 2005

Overview Edit

Love Kraft is the seventh studio album by Welsh indie rock band Super Furry Animals, released on 22 August 2005 through Epic Records in the United Kingdom.

The album was recorded in Spain with producer Mario Caldato Jr and was something of a departure for the band, with all members contributing songs and lead vocals alongside Gruff Rhys who had been main songwriter for the Super Furries until this point. In selecting tracks for Love Kraft a conscious effort was made by the band not to choose songs on their individual merit but rather to pick those which went well together in order to create as cohesive an album as possible. The album's name was taken from a sex shop, Love Craft, near the Cardiff offices of the Super Furries' management team and is also a nod to American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.

Critical response was generally positive with some reviews claiming the album was the best of the group's career. However, a few reviewers expressed reservations that Love Kraft was "merely a very good Super Furry Animals effort" and was not as impressive as the band's previous records.

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Release dates:
  • Sep 13 2005 in United States

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Britpop, Ambient, Alternative Rock, Indie, Neo-Psychedelia, Pop. Vote on Genres

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5 stars A New Chapter
A long way from being a household name in the states, the Furries are

getting a foothold. Lazer Beam, their first single is a grand culmination

of "cosmic funk" & power rock sung by a Welshman in a Tron suit. SFA show

they are the alternate universe Coldplay (give Chris Martin the Evil Spock

beard) with an authentically unique sound that seems to fit no clique. A

bad thing if you're in high school, but the only true way to continue

evolving creatively in the world of art and music.

If you were …
Written by C. Minney "defuser"
3 stars Losing interest fast...
After seven albums, the Furries are either content in their position (unlikely) or are trying too hard to distance themselves from better days. They were ahead of their time almost every step of the way in the 90s and then in the early 00s released a Welsh-language LP and one packed with so much sonic excitement that overkill almost was the point. But now they've gone two in a row with disappointing safeness, dream pop stretched through noisy bluster, given mostly dull vocals by assorted members…
Written by Matthew T. Medlock "the q is slient"

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Love Kraft 12 tracks format: 1 x CD
catalog number: EICP-546
release dates: Sep 13 2005
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14 tracks format: 1 x CD
record label: Epic Records Japan Inc.
catalog number: EICP-546
release dates: 2005 in Japan
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