In 2010, Super Furry Animals went on what became a five-year hiatus, as bassist Guto Pryce revealed in an interview with Wales Online. Pryce noted that the band expected to reconvene as soon as the members finished with the various projects they were working on.
On 16 March 2009, Super Furry Animals released their ninth and final studio album, Dark Days/Light Years , digitally via their website. The album’s progress was recorded in a series of short films that were shown on the band’s website in the build-up to the release. Later in March, they…
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Band members changed over the course of several years. Greg Camp left the band in the summer of 2008. Smash Mouth recruited Leroy Miller to play guitar. Leroy left in 2009 and Camp returned to the band, but in 2011 Camp left once again and this time the band recruited…
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Recording sessions took place in a chateau in the south of France in 2007 for the band’s first release for Rough Trade, Hey Venus! , which was released on 27 August that year. Gruff himself described the record as “speaker blowing”. The album’s first single, “Show Your Hand”, failed to…
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On June 13, 2006, Brian Wilson, Love, Jardine, Marks, and Johnston participated in a non-performing reunion atop the Capitol Records Building to celebrate that Sounds of Summer had been certified double-platinum. Later that year, Jardine joined Wilson and his band for a tour celebrating the 40th anniversary of Pet Sounds…
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Before the release of Summer Girl , drummer Michael Urbano left the band without warning on February 14, 2006, due to creative differences. He was initially replaced by former drummer Mitch Marine, and then by Jason Sutter, best known for his work with American Hi-Fi and the Rembrandts . The…
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Ciaran’s side project Acid Casuals released their debut album Omni in January 2006 on the Placid Casual label. Drummer Ieuan formed a band known as The Peth which has been described by Rhys in various magazine articles as “Satanic Abba”: the band also reunites Rhys Ifans with the SFA family,…
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The band signed to Rough Trade Records during 2006 and are reportedly working on three projects for the label. Gruff Rhys has also signed for Rough Trade Records as a solo artist in his own right and released a single on 7″ vinyl and download entitled “Candylion” in late 2006…
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In December 2005, the band released a Christmas album Gift of Rock . It featured covers of Christmas songs by many artists, such as the Kinks and the Ramones , and one original song, “Baggage Claim”.
Smash Mouth’s fifth studio album, originally to be titled Old Habits , was recorded in 2005 and expected to be released in early 2006. The band had said that the album was much more like the ska punk featured on Fush Yu Mang and The East Bay Sessions . In…
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