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Super Furry Animals Return With a Vast, Uneven Archive Release of Early Rarities
Super Furry Animals have released Precreation Percolation, a multi-format archival set of early material. The collection includes 1995 EP tracks, 22 CD extras, cassette demos, and a rare appearance by original singer Rhys Ifans.
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Precreation Percolation revisits Super Furry Animals’ earliest years and even brings back a former singer few expected to hear.
Written by David Harris | May 4, 2026 – 12:39 pm
After releasing Dark Days/Light Years in 2009, Super Furry Animals never formally split. They stopped issuing new records. Following a run that began with 1996’s Fuzzy Logic, the Welsh five-piece went quiet, while frontman Gruff Rhys focused on solo work, including 2014’s American Interior. Aside from a major 2016 tour, there was little activity from the band for years.
That changed last October. Super Furry Animals gave an interview to Uncut, announced a 20th-anniversary reissue of Love Kraft, and confirmed the Supacabra tour across Ireland and the U.K. in May 2026. Those dates sold out quickly, and summer shows were added soon after.
For now, the comeback does not include new songs. Instead, the band released Precreation Percolation on May 1, a large archival set focused on its pre-fame period.
Issued in three formats, the project functions as both origin story and vault clear-out. Dedicated fans will find valuable early documents. Casual listeners may find the nearly 100-minute collection difficult to navigate.
The vinyl edition combines two 1995 releases known as “The Ankst EPs”: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyndrobwllantysiliogogogochynygofod (In Space) and Moog Droog, each with four tracks. Much of it is exploratory, but “Organ Yn Dy Geg” stands out, with bright instrumentation and Gruff Rhys switching between Welsh and English in quick, surreal phrases. “Fix Idris” also hints at the songwriting approach the group would sharpen later.
The CD version adds a second disc with 22 more tracks, including “Pocket Sam,” fronted by original singer Rhys Ifans. Yes, that Rhys Ifans, the actor later known for Notting Hill. His appearance makes the track a notable historical footnote in the band’s timeline.
Digital buyers get nine additional tracks, mostly early-’90s cassette demos. Several recordings are raw, but they map the path toward songs that later became central to the band’s catalog, including “God! Show Me Magic” and “The Man Don’t Give a Fuck.”
Precreation Percolation looks firmly backward. Whether it also signals a full studio return remains unanswered.