3CD Set housed in a Trifold-Digipack - including two CDs packed with loads of bonus material, including out-takes, demos, and live versions, much of it previously unreleased. Carefully remastered from the mixdown tapes and includes liner notes from the album’s executive producer Kurt Stern.
Super Furry Animals were one of the first post-alternative bands, fusing together a number of disparate musical genres - including power pop, punk rock, techno, and progressive rock - creating a shimmering, melodic, irreverent, and wilfully artsy rock and roll.
Produced by the band, Phantom Power, celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2023, keeps a much lower profile than the band’s previous work. The album, for the most part, is awash with pedal steel, acoustic guitars and vocal harmonies. But if you think the creative juices have ceased, you could barely be more wrong.
Gruff Rhys' songwriting moves a step forward on ‘Phantom Power’, with playful story-based lyrics about turtles, mingers, ninjas and cabbages contrasting with lines about death, radiation and war.
This remastered album is a 3CD format, with two CDs packed with loads of bonus material, including out-takes, demos, and live versions, much of it previously unreleased.
Tracklist:
CD1
'Phantom Power':
01. Hello Sunshine
02. Liberty Belle
03. Golden Retriever
04. Sex, War & Robots
05. The Piccolo Snare
06. Venus & Serena
07. Father Father #1
08. Bleed Forever
09. Out of Control
10. Cityscape Skybaby
11. Father Father #2
12. Valet Parking
13. The Undefeated
14. Slow Life
15. Untitled
16. The Piccolo Snare (Mario C. Stripped Down Mix)
17. The Undefeated (Final Mix 1)
18. Valet Parking (Unedited Final Mix)
19. Bleed Forever (Unedited Final Mix)
CD2
'Solvent Abuse Awareness Week'
B-Sides & Such:
1. Father Father #3
2. Summer Snow
3. Blue Fruit
4. Cowbird
5. Sanitizzzed
6. Motherfokker feat. Goldie Lookin Chain
7. Lost Control
8. The Man Don’t Give A Fuck (Live)
CD3
'I Need No Guidance, Just Your Patience'
(All Previously Unreleased):
01. Father Father*
02. Hello Sunshine*
03. Aluminum Illuminati
04. Cabbages (retitled Cityscape Skybaby)*
05. Golden Retriever*
06. Hummingbird (retitled Cloudberries)*
07. Billy’s Gone (retitled Out Of Control)*
08. Head First (retitled Paddling Pools)*
09. No Go (retitled Summer Snow)*
10. Father Father*
AV Happenings Demo, Chwefror 2002:
11. Sex, War & Robots**
12. Bluebird 1**
13. Bluebird 2**
14. Bluebird 3**
15. Bluebird 4**
16. Walk You Home**
17. The Undefeated**
18. Every Building Has Been Built**
19. Blue Fruit**
20. Valet Parking**
'The Making Of Phantom Power':
21. Valet Parking (Rockfield Rough Mix, Mai 2002) ***
22. Out Of Control (Rockfield Rough Mix, Mai 2002) ***
23. Paddling Pools (Rockfield Rough Mix, Mai 2002) ***
24. Miami Vice*** (AV Happenings Rough Mix, Hyedref 2002)
25. Slow Life (Monnow Valley Rough Mix, Tachwedd 2002) ***
*Stiwdio Ofn Demo, Gwanwyn 2002
**AV Happenings Demo, Chwefror 2002
***Rough Mixes 2002