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product_id: 64172903
title: "Candylion"
brand: "harold buddgruff rhys"
price: "R560"
currency: ZAR
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reviews_count: 8
url: https://www.desertcart.co.za/products/64172903-candylion
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region: South Africa
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# Candylion

**Brand:** harold buddgruff rhys
**Price:** R560
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** Candylion by harold buddgruff rhys
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Product Description          Second solo album from Super Furry Animals' frontman Gruff Rhys. Recorded with Gorwel Owen in Llanfaelog, Wales and Mario Caldato Jr. in Rio de Janeiro. Candy lion sees Rhys deliver a set of laidback Psychedelic Indie Folk gems. 12 tracks including 'Painting People Blue', 'Beacon in the Darkness' and the first single, 'Candy lion'. Rough Trade. 2007.             .co.uk          The second solo album from Super Furry Animals frontman Gruff Rhys, Candylion is a far more approachable pop proposition than his lone debut, 2005's Welsh-language Yr Atal Genhedlaeth. Recorded at Super Furry Animals producer Gorwel Owen's house in Anglesey with the help of double bass player Owen Evans and vocalist Lisa Jen from Welsh outfit 9 Bach, this is an outwardly upbeat set of mostly English language songs that explores Rhys' fascination for international psychedelia, the Welsh-language music of the '60s and '70s, and the madness of the modern world. The xylophone-accompanied title track is a deceptively slight opener that demonstrates Rhys' skill for nonsense word-play ("A penguin and carnation/A lemon and Dalmatian"). Further in, however, we find ourselves in more uncertain territory: "Lonesome Words" is a keening folk number undercut by skittering, looped drums, while the peculiar "Cycle Of Violence" offers a glimpse of apocalypse, Gruff noting "dirty bombs and clean ones look the same if you look closely" in a high, quavering tremor. Terror plays a big role in Candylion - the epic closing track, "Skylon", is set to the backdrop of an international hijacking  but it also contains some of Gruff's prettiest songs to date: see the country-tinged "Beacon In The Darkness" and the shimmering "Con Carino".--Louis Pattison             
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                  Review           Extra-curricular solo albums seem to be something of rare beast these days. Last year they were all it - Thom Yorke, Jarvis Cocker, Albert Hammond Jr, James Dean Bradfield. Then shaggy-haired Welsh singer Gruff Rhys decided to unleash his own little super furry animal in the New Year, in the form of Candylion.Unlike his 2005 Welsh debut, Yr Atal Genhedlaeth, which was little more than a series of throwaway demos, Rhys' successor is a much more loveable affair.Recorded at SFA producer Gorwel Owen's cottage in Anglesey with the help of angelic 9 Bach vocalist, Lisa Jen, the frontman's second outing drags us through a myriad of nursery rhyme sing-a-longs, set up perfectly by the tinkling title track. From here, Rhys throws out each song like a sack of toys. Only some aren't as playful as they first appear. "Cycle Of Violence" for instance, may come on like a galloping lullaby but beneath the surface lies a lyrically darker demon who speaks of apocalyptic visions of terror, dirty bombs and, err... power stations. Similar themes are echoed in epic 14 minute closer "Skylon!" - an expansive airline narrative about a bomb disposal expert stuck on a plane with a TV actress he despises while a lone hijacker waits in the wings.Set against a monotonous rhythm section, this intriguing tale may occupy a third of the album's intake, but each passing moment is about as compulsive as an episode of 24.Further afield the acid fuelled "Gyrru Gyrru Gyrru (Driving Driving Driving)" one of Candylion's rare Welsh tracks, sits perfectly alongside Rhys' finger plucking bountiful ballad "Beacon In The Darkness"while the Celtic and cosmic blasts of "The Court Of King Arthur" and "Lonesome Words" sound like they've been plucked straight out of a Monty Python movie.Extra-curricular albums may be a dying breed but Candylion is one beast that demands your attention. --Damian JonesFind more music at the BBC This link will take you off  in a new window            See more

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## Customer Reviews

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    Poor vinyl quality control
  

*by (***) on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 25 August 2021*

Candling is one of Gruffs best records. Such a shame to have it spoilt by poor quality pressing. I've had 2 copies of this record from amazon and each has had excessive noise in the right channel and warping. I really want a vinyl copy of this in my collection but not if the pressing is awful.

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    roars
  

*by L***H on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 6 November 2017*

roars

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    Five Stars
  

*by M***E on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 19 September 2015*

Fab!

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