David Emery OnlineHard Day's Night
18 March 2009
On Monday evening – in one of those lovely coincidences that makes everything that little bit more fun – we launched two things that I think I worth highlighting.
First up at 20:00 we released the new Super Furry Animals album ‘Dark Days / Light Years’ as a download from their site. To coincide with that, and to make things that bit more exciting we also did a webcast of a live performance of the album in its entirety, shot in their studio in Cardiff. Happily, everything went to plan (although I did have to switch computers twice in in the minutes leading up to the webcast as I managed to lock up 2 other ones in quick succession…) and even more happily the album is great – I’ve been a fan of SFA for ages but wasn’t a fan of the last album (I think they lost their edge slightly). This one is a definite return to form, and well worth checking out.
After that had all calmed down at the stroke of midnight we launched the new site for The Horrors which features the new video for ‘Sea Within A Sea’ along with a free download of the track if you signup to the mailing list. Back in January I twittered about 2 good songs I couldn’t really talk about and this was one of them (the other being Velvet by The Big Pink) – I think it’s brilliant quite frankly, and such an amazing progression from the last album.
Busy times, but good times.