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studio album
First released:
Aug 25 1997

Overview Edit

Radiator is the second album by the Super Furry Animals. It peaked at #8 on the UK charts. In 2005, it was reissued with a bonus disc of other tracks from the time.

In 2000 Q magazine placed Radiator at number 73 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever.

Singer Gruff Rhys has described Radiator as "more interesting" than the band's debut Fuzzy Logic with the group taking advantage of producer Gorwel Owen's "Atari computers, and banks of old vintage synths" to create an album which was "musically ... much more adventurous".

The track 'Download' repeatedly appeared on the hit Welsh TV Show 'Lois' about a young teenage girl struggling to come to terms with her anorexia.

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Catalog number:
BXL 038CD
Release dates:
  • Apr 12 2005 in United States

Genres

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

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5 stars SFA - OK!
How does this band do it? Listen to me on this, they are the MOST ORIGINAL band on the globe, period! There is no other band attemping to fuse the music that they do, and Radiator is just one more example. This CD, the bands second release, finds the band far more weird, but more substantial than their debut material. ( which is also fantastic ) Songs like "The Placid Casual", and "Moutain People", start off as really melodic pop numbers, but morph into techno-weird excursions in sound. The clas…
Written by Cary S. Whitt "Tune Junkie"
3 stars 4th album
This is quite unlike their earlier heavy stuff. It's almost 180 degrees from Vincebus Eruptum and their best work, Outsideinside. It's an ok album, but nothing special. "Fool" is a solid r&b sounding number with some good harmonica and fine vocals by band leader Dickie Peterson. 'You're Gonna Need Someone" , by Bruce Stephens, is another solid track that ends with some weird duck quacks and some cool rolling bass lines from Peterson. Stephens, who had previously worked with Chuck Berry and a ban…
Written by Stephen F Mulcahy

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Radiator 14 tracks format: 1 x CD
catalog number: BXL 038CD
release dates: Apr 12 2005
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Radiator 5 tracks format: 1 x CD
record label: XL Recordings
catalog number: BXL 038CD
release dates: Apr 12 2005 in United States
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Radiator 19 tracks format: 2 x CD
record label: XL Recordings
catalog number: BXL 038CD
release dates: Apr 12 2005
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