
Emerging at the height of Britpop on Alan McGee’s fabled Creation Records with their delightfully quirky 1996 debut single Hometown Unicorn, Super Furry Animals immediately marked themselves down as a breed apart from what was going on around them.
Prodigiously talented and with a fierce intelligence and sense of humour to match, it was obvious to anyone paying attention that these Welsh wonders were in for the long haul. And unlike labelmates Oasis, who found themselves increasingly circling the plug hole of creativity, Super Furry Animals moved ever forward with each subsequent release.