I was going to write some awful long thing about the heat today where I live and it involved an awful pun with a sticky situation like that in the song, but I think it'll be better if I merely say that Love Kraft, the last album by the Super Furry Animals, has a great deal of lovely long songs. It's notorious as an album that takes a while to get into, which isn't a problem, it's just wildy different from when they started, putting out quick little bits of crazy ~~brit~~ welshpop. It's a great statement to thier progression as a band, especially considering that The SFA were perhaps the most eclectic and exciting band of the britpop era, if you don't count Radiohead in that (and some do).

Super Furry Animals – Ohio Heat

Super Furry Animals

So about that heat. The disc plays slow and languid, but not sluggish, like a warm and slightly humid day with some cold lemonade and hammock action. Of course the pace picks up in places, but it ain't exactly march time. Each song oozes and melts, but never together. When played live, this shit is intense. If I could pick a song that was perhaps best represents the album it'd be Ohio Heat, a song about a pregnant girl that runs away from nuns and drowns. It's sweet and melancholy, and somehow manages to be an excellent summer song. Which is apparently here now.

A long time ago
In the greenest cypress groves
We were beaming golden glow

Ohio heat
Sweet as sugar from a beet
Sleek as foxes in the street
Evolution seemed complete