The future Super Furry Animals album will be an instrumental affair, frontman Gruff Rhys revealed this weekend. And they already have rafts of material.
"We've been working on an instrumental record for most two days now," Rhys told BBC 6 Music. "So we're ploughing out front with that and we've got 24 hours of recorded music."
A whole day's worth of music! SFA could handout a 24-disc set, with an album for every hour of the day � or they could just cut it down into something normal. "It's a casing of redaction it and getting it to under an time of day, or some palatable size of it," Rhys admitted.
The as-yet-untitled album will be the one-eighth from SFA. Although 2000's Mwng was sung exclusively in Welsh, this volition be their first book to feature film no lyrics at all.
"We don't real want to re-record the same album over and over over again," Rhys aforementioned. "I think in the Super Furry Animals were always into melody, demur this time we lav mess about with the texture if we haven't got whatsoever lyrics to get in the way."
They started by recording with a subsection of the BBC concert orchestra, using six or seven musicians "to develop ideas [to] use and then adapt to a larger orchestra in future".
"We work instinctively so we like being able to whistle ideas at each other, and by working with a small group of orchestral musicians we can blackguard ideas at them and whistle stuff as we go on. Then we can format the stuff we've made by whistle and humming ideas for a larger group of musicians."
Next up from the Furries: a 24-hour-long album of them whistling.
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