[This review was published in Popshot.]
What the hell is this? Collider play schticky AOR rock replete with big hooks, kitschy keyboards and dumb, dumb pop culture references. For an EP that is likely going to serve as an introduction to a band, the problem is mainly context — where is Collider coming from?
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[This piece originally appeared in All The Rage.]
When Super Furry Animals appeared on the British music scene in the mid-1990s, they were surrounded by foppish, guitar pop bands – bands like Radiohead, Oasis and Blur. While it took those bands years to turn to experimentation – to get “weird” — SFA had been weird from the get-go. The Welsh band’s 1996 release, Fuzzy Logic, was an oddball in a year of Wonderwalls and Country Houses. Their debut record whirred, blipped and squawked but unlike other artsy rock, it actually rocked. Like a masculine Ziggy Stardust, SFA charted a course through edgy guitars, bizarre lyrics (dreams about hamsters generating electricity?), and oddly catchy choruses.