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Super Furry Animals Announce New Record, Tour

It seems that the Super Furry Animals are super busy these days. The Welsh psych-pop collective announced that they have completed work on a new album titled Hey Venus!, a follow-up to 2005's Love Kraft, which sees an August 27 release date via Rough Trade Records. But additionally, lead singer Gruff Rhys reveals that he'll be involved in two summer tours, both in the capacity of front man and as a solo musician. Rhys will tour with the Furries in anticipation of the group's forthcoming release and perform sans-Animals intermittently throughout the tour in promotion of his debut solo record, Candylion.

As if that wasn't enough SFA to keep everyone happy, band member Guto Pryce has also compiled a collection of reggae and dub tracks from the Trojan Records label. Titled Furry Selection: Luxury Cuts of Trojan Chosen by a Super Furry Animal, the comp was released on May 28.

This is the tracklisting for Hey Venus:

01 The Gateway Song
02 Runaway
03 Show Your Hand
04 The Gift
05 Neo Consumer
06 Into the Night
07 Baby Ate My Eight Ball
08 Carbon Dating
09 Suckers
10 Battersea Odyssey
11 Wolves

These are the Super Furry Animals live dates:
06-14 Cardiff, Wales - Clwb Ifor Bach
06-15 Cardiff, Wales - Clwb Ifor Bach
06-16 Cardiff, Wales - Clwb Ifor Bach
06-17 Cardiff, Wales - Clwb Ifor Bach
06-19 London, England - ICA
06-22 Glastonbury, England - Glastonbury Festival
07-13 Kent, England - Lounge on the Farm
07-14 Coventry, England - Godiva Festival
07-21 London, England - Lovebox Festival
07-21 Dublin, Ireland - Lovebox Festival
08-25 Cardiff, Wales - Coopers Field (Get Loaded in the Park)
08-31 Glasgow, Scotland - Connect Festival
09-02 Jersey, Channel Islands - Jerseylive
09-15 Dorset, England - End of the Road Festival
11-11 Burham-on-Sea, England - Tunnel Vision Festival

These are the Gruff Rhys solo dates:

06-09 Devon, England - Lynton and Lynmouth Festival
06-30 Stockholm, Sweden - Accelerator Festival
07-27 Liverpool, England - Picket
07-28 Glasgow, Scotland - Fruit Market
07-29 London, England - KOKO
08-11 London, England - Field Day Festival
08-12 Leicester, England - Summer Sundae Festival
08-19 Brecon, Wales - Green Man Festival

—The ARTISTdirect Staff
06.05.07