Fresh from a year of numerous festival appearances Super Furry Animals are set to reissue their debut album Fuzzy Logic. Fans old and new can expect 180g vinyl, remastered sound ("vastly superior" to what you may have bought before of course) and a gatefold version of the sleeve along with 35 extra tracks (demos so you can have a listen to more than one version of some songs, unreleased tracks and non-album singles such as 'The Man Don't Give A Fuck').

Additionally the 'best' of the band's material from 1995-2016 has been put together on a new double disc set entitled Zoom!, thereby updating 1998's Outspaced and 2004's Songbook : The Singles Vol.1. The 37 song set comes complete with new band interviews and new illustrations from long time visual collaborator Pete Fowler.

The band's 14 date UK and Ireland tour, which will also see them playing second album Radiator in full, kicks off in Northern Ireland on the last day of November and tickets can be obtained here.

Both the re-mastered Fuzzy Logic and Zoom! : The Best Of The Super Furry Animals 1995-2016 can be ordered here.

Tour Dates:-

Wed 30 Nov – Belfast Limelight

Thu 1 Dec - Dublin Olympia

Fri 2 Dec - Aberystwyth Arts Centre

Sat 3 Dec – Llandudno Venue Cymru

Sun 4 Dec - Norwich UEA

Tue 6 Dec - Bristol O2 Academy

Wed 7 Dec - Bournemouth O2 Academy

Thu 8 Dec/Fri 9 Dec - London Roundhouse

Sat 10 Dec - Birmingham 02 Institute

Mon 12 Dec - Edinburgh Usher Hall

Tue 13 Dec - Brighton Dome

Thu 15 Dec - Leeds 02 Academy

Fri 16 Dec - Nottingham Rock City

Sat 17 Dec - Cardiff Motorpoint Arena 

Given that the promo shot accompanying this release is of three men in boiler suits with wet crotches it's initially hard to say whether the band's name is a piss take of severe alcoholism or they fancy that they've amusingly updated the RHCP's socks-on-cocks image. They also hashtag themselves as a triple K, thus striking a blow against pillowcase wearing racists. Juvenilia aside what does the music sound like?

Well, for one thing, track two, 'Suicide Limp', seems to employ auto-tune on the vocals so that's a black mark right off. 

For another thing there’s lots of noodling around to little effect and the final track, ‘Very Friendly Fire’, is 18 minutes long – except it’s not as ten minutes or so of it’s silence before a ‘crazy’ little end part. It looks better viewed on soundcloud than actually being listened to. Yawn.

Positive elements do though exist on PVITLOMP. ‘Hearts Too Hard’ has a pretty effective vocal and piano part with muted guitar thrashing in the background and elsewhere there are virtuosic, proggy guitar parts married up to the kind of angst-ridden vocals you’d not ordinarily think of them working well with. ‘Pussy Scars’ is a pretty good example of the fuzzed up, rockier material the band are capable of although you have to wonder at that title.

Overall this is an album of peaks and troughs of emotional maturity, played by musicians whose talents seem to have outpaced their social development. It’s pretty boring at times too. Frontman Pieter-Paul Devos is quoted as saying  “There are no genres in music, there is only good, sincere music and there is bad music”. Apart from that being bollocks we’re clearly on either side of his definition when it comes to Physical Violence Is The Least Of My Priorities.

Physical Violence Is The Least Of My Priorities is available from amazon & iTunes.