Radiator (album)

For other uses, see Radiator (disambiguation).

Untitled

Radiator is the second album by the Super Furry Animals. It peaked at #8 on the UK charts. In 2005, it was reissued with a bonus disc of other tracks from the time.

In 2000 Q magazine placed Radiator at number 73 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever.

Singer Gruff Rhys has described Radiator as "more interesting" than the band's debut Fuzzy Logic with the group taking advantage of producer Gorwel Owen's "Atari computers, and banks of old vintage synths" to create an album which was "musically ... much more adventurous".

Track listing

All songs by Super Furry Animals.

1. "Furryvision" – 1:26
2. "The Placid Casual" – 2:49
3. "The International Language of Screaming" – 2:14
4. "Demons" – 5:11
5. "Short Painkiller" – 0:38
6. "She's Got Spies" – 4:43
7. "Play It Cool" – 3:16
8. "Hermann ♥'s Pauline" – 4:43
9. "Chupacabras" – 1:26
10. "Torra Fy Ngwallt Yn Hir" – 1:54
11. "Bass Tuned to D.E.A.D" – 3:20
12. "Down a Different River" – 5:37
13. "Download" – 3:19
14. "Mountain People" – 6:18

Reissue bonus disc

1. "Mu-tron" – 3:16
2. "nO.K." – 2:12
3. "Foxymusic" – 3:49
4. "Hit & Run" – 3:29
5. "Wrap It Up" – 3:25

"nO.K." plays the theme of "The International Language of Screaming" on an acoustic guitar, without the vocals, accentuating the alphabet being read in both English and Welsh in the background. As the title implies, the recitations of the alphabets omit the letter "K". This was in response to the popularity of Kula Shaker at the time who had adopted the letter K as part of their manifesto. SFA recorded nO.K leaving out the letter K as an anti Kula-Shaker stance.