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The giddy, knowing joy that characterized Super Furry Animals almost out of the gate continued apace on their second album, 1997’s Radiator. If mildly less anarchic in ways it’s only a matter of degrees, with the same cockeyed and all-encompassing spirit evident throughout, an early Roxy Music for a later generation. “Hermann ♥’s Pauline” is the best salute to Albert Einstein since Sparks’s “Talent Is An Asset,” while “Chupacabras” may be the best glam-stomp anthem about Mexican monsters sung by Welshmen ever.

Ned Raggett

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