Gruff Rhys

Gruff Rhys backs Welsh Songwriters

Music Gossip

20 Dec 2011

Gruff Rhys fears Welsh language songs could be "forced out of existence". The Super Furry Animals frontman joined over 750 artists in the Welsh Songwriters Strike - asking BBC Radio Cymru not to play their records yesterday (19.12.11) - after PRS…

Gruff Rhys' model record

Music Gossip

20 Mar 2011

Gruff Rhys' new album is named after a model he built from shampoo bottles. The Super Furry Animals frontman has just released his latest LP, 'Hotel Shampoo', which he says was inspired by a collection of miniature toiletries he amassed while on the…

Gruff Rhys - Hotel Shampoo

Super Furry Animals frontman' third solo album combines low-key with pop

8 Feb 2011

(Turnstile) Currently on a break from his day job with the mighty Super Furry Animals, the prolific Rhys remains incapable of disappointing. This third solo album is low-key, but plenty of pristine pop moments present themselves: the horn-driven…

Gruff Rhys new solo album a collection of autobiographical piano ballads

'Hotel Shampoo' a departure for Super Furry Animals singer

16 Nov 2010

‘I don’t keep diaries,’ says Gruff Rhys, on the phone from his home in Cardiff, ‘but I’ve kept every bottle of free shampoo I’ve been given (in hotels) since I started to tour 15 years ago. I always wanted to build my own hotel out of all that free…

Gruff Rhys’ Seperado! documentary traces South American family roots

Super Furry Animal frontman's film discovers Welsh diaspora

10 Aug 2010

We didn’t have room to mention it in our review pages but also out this week is Super Furry Animal Gruff Rhys’ fascinating and funny documentary in which he attempts to trace the South American strand of his family and in the process discover a Welsh…

The Terror of Cosmic Loneliness unites Tony Da Gatorra and Gryff Rhys

Brazillian counter-culture and Super Furry Animal create madcap album

22 Jul 2010

(Turnstile) The most striking thing about this clattering, madcap alliance between psychedelic Super Furry Animal Rhys and Brazilian counter-cultural vanguard Da Gatorra occurs on recent single (and standout track) ‘In A House With No Mirrors’: it sees…

Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse - Dark Night of the Soul

7 Jul 2010

(EMI) The recent suicide of Mark Linkous, aka. Sparklehorse imbues this posthumous release with oppressive waves of melancholy, but this often-inspired record – heartbreaking and uplifting in equal measure – rises above such considerations to stand…

Neon Neon - Stainless Style

13 Mar 2008

ELECTRO (Lex) A concept album about John DeLorean (inventor of Marty McFly’s motor and acquitted drug trafficker) by Super Furry Animals’ Gruff Rhys and hip hop innovator Boom Bip sounds like a dream ticket, although the finished product is low on…

Gruff Rhys - album review

Gruff Rhys

15 Jan 2007

INDIE Super Furry Animals have always had an irresistible, hapless charm, none more so than bobble-headed stoner frontman Gruff Rhys. Freed from his bandmates’ influence, Rhys comes up with a warm and fuzzy smile-inducing collection of essentially…