Fuzzy Logic (album)
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{{Infobox Album | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums -->
| Name = Fuzzy Logic
| Type = [[Album]]
| Artist = [[Super Furry Animals]]
| Cover = FuzzyLogic-SFA.jpg
| Released = May 22, 1996
| Recorded = 1996
| Genre = [[Alternative rock]] [[Britpop]] [[Psychedelic rock]]
| Length = 43:47
| Label = [[Creation Records|Creation]]
| Producer = Gorwel Owen, Super Furry Animals
| Reviews =
*[[Allmusic]] {{rating-5|4.5}} [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:7c1tk6rxqkrh~T00 link]
*[[Pitchfork Media]] (8.4/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/22151-fuzzy-logic-radiator-out-spaced-guerilla-mwng link]
*''[[Rolling Stone]]'' {{Rating-5|4}} [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/superfurryanimals/albums/album/219278/review/5942349/fuzzy_logic link]
| Last album = ''[[Moog Droog]]''<br/>(1995) |
| This album = '''''Fuzzy Logic'''''<br/>(1996) |
| Next album = ''[[Radiator (album)|Radiator]]''<br/>(1997) |
| Misc = {{Singles
| Name = Fuzzy Logic
| Type = album
| Single 1 = [[Hometown Unicorn]]
| Single 1 date = [[26 February]], 1996
| Single 2 = [[God! Show Me Magic]]
| Single 2 date = [[29 April]], 1996
| Single 3 = [[Something 4 the Weekend]]
| Single 3 date = [[1 July]], 1996
| Single 4 = [[If You Don't Want Me to Destroy You]]
| Single 4 date = [[30 September]], 1996
}}
}}
'''''Fuzzy Logic''''' is the debut album by the [[Super Furry Animals]]. It was listed in [[Q Magazine]]'s Best British Albums Ever in July 2004, and in the same magazine's Top 10 Britpop Albums Ever in December 1996 and features in the book ''[[1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die]]''<ref>http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/steveparker/1001albums.htm</ref>. It contains two top 20 hits in "[[If You Don't Want Me to Destroy You]]" and "[[Something 4 the Weekend]]"; it also contains the singles "[[God! Show Me Magic]]" and "[[Hometown Unicorn]]". It reached #23 in the [[UK Albums Chart]] on release.<ref name="everyhit">{{cite web|last=|first=|title=Search Results -- Albums|work=http://www.everyhit.com|date=[[2008-03-24]]|url=http://www.everyhit.com|accessdate=2008-03-24}}</ref>
The name comes from a [[Fuzzy logic|mathematical term]] which describes terms that are easy to understand by humans but are not so easily understood by computers.
== Recording ==
In a 2008 interview with ''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]'' [[Gruff Rhys]] described the process of making the album:
{{cquote|We'd signed a deal and we were sort of blagging a bit ... We'd heard about [[Rockfield Studios]] and we wanted to record there because they had [[Jacuzzi|jacuzzis]] and you got three meals a day, all the wrong reasons for going to a studio.<ref name=Uncut>{{cite journal|first = Piers|last = Martin|title = Album by album: Super Furry Animals|journal = [[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]|volume = 131|pages = 70–72|date = April 2008}}</ref>}}
Although the album was conceived as a reaction to [[Britpop]] which the band felt represented a "conservative backwards movement in music" they soon realised that they were in an "old 70's studio making [a] 70's rock album".<ref name=Uncut />
Former members [[Rhys Ifans]] and Dic Ben contributed to the track "Long Gone" by leaving an [[Answering machine|answerphone]] message which plays as the song comes to a close.<ref name=Linernotes>{{cite album-notes |title=Fuzzy Logic |albumlink=Fuzzy Logic (album) |bandname=[[Super Furry Animals]] |year=1996 |notestitle= |url= |first= |last= |pages=[p.6] |format=CD booklet |publisher=[[Creation Records]]|publisherid=CRECD190 |location=[[London]] |mbid=01d75a71-fef6-430b-832f-41a3dc02d594}}</ref>
== Cover ==
''Fuzzy Logic'' is often noted for its cover depicting a variety of photos of international drug smuggler [[Howard Marks]]. Marks, who is paid tribute to on the song "Hangin' with Howard Marks", visited Rockfield during the making of the album at the band's request "wearing leather trousers and a cloak with a big entourage".<ref name=Uncut /> As a result, the band later struck up a friendship with Marks, and are referenced in his autobiography ''[[Mr Nice]]''.
In 2005, the album was reissued with a second bonus disc containing additional tracks recorded around the same time period as the album.
==Track listing==
#"[[God! Show Me Magic]]" – 1:50
#"Fuzzy Birds" – 2:27
#"[[Something 4 the Weekend|Something For the Weekend]]" – 2:50
#"Frisbee" – 2:21
#"[[Hometown Unicorn]]" – 3:33
#"Gathering Moss" – 3:22
#"[[If You Don't Want Me to Destroy You]]" – 3:17
#"Bad Behaviour" – 4:26
#"Mario Man" – 4:07
#"Hangin (with [[Howard Marks]])" – 4:20
#"Long Gone" – 5:20
#"For Now and Ever" – 3:32
==Reissue Bonus CD==
# "Organ yn Dy Geg" – 2:56
# "Crys Ti" – 1:56
# "Lazy Life (Of No Fixed Identity)" – 2:15
# "Death by Melody" – 2:32
# "Waiting to Happen" – 2:34
==Personnel==
===SFA===
*Gruff Rhys – Vocals, Guitars, Analogues, Claps
*Dafydd Ieuan - Drums, Percussion, Vocals, Piano, Claps
*Cian Ciaran – Keyboards, Analogues, Vocals, Claps
*Guto Pryce - Bass Guitar, Hammond, Claps, Analogues
*Huw Bunford – Guitars, Vocals, E-Bow, Cello, Claps
===Additional musicians===
*Gorwel Owen - Piano, Hammond, Rhodes
*Jez Francis - Piano on "God! Show Me Magic"
*Matthew Everett - Violin
*Chris Williams - Violin
*Helen Sparro - Viola
*Catherine Tanner - Cello
*Martin Smith - Trumpet, Tenor Horn
*Simon James - Saxophone, Flute
*Andrew Frizell - Saxophone, Recorder, Trombone
*Lindsay Higgs - Balalaika
*Rhys Ifans & Dic Ben - Answering machine message on "Long Gone"
===Credits===
* SFA - Songs, Production
* Gorwel Owen - Production
* Andy Wilkinson - Engineering
* Nick Brine - Assistance
* Brian Cannon @ Microdot - Design, Art Direction
* Toby Egelnick - Inside Design, Layout
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{Super Furry Animals}}
[[Category:Super Furry Animals albums]]
[[Category:Debut albums]]
[[Category:1996 albums]]
[[Category:Creation Records albums]]
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