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Super Furry Animals: Phantom Power

Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, August 2003

IT MAKES some kind of super furry sense that Phantom Power - coming after the homegrown, lo-fi Mwng and the big-budget, all-bells-and-whistles Rings Around The World - should find Gruff Rhys and chums arriving at some equilibrial point between those two poles. But Gruff and chums never make "sense" to start with, which is precisely what one loves about these magical pranksters.

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