The idea of releasing a Welsh language album into the unforgiving musical marketplace might sound like commercial suicide, but Mwng is the sound of Britain's finest anarchic-surrealist pop act blossoming anew after the dissolution of their previous label, Creation. Released on Super Furry Animal's own Placid Casual imprint in collaboration with Welsh über-indie label Ankst, Mwng harks back, misty-eyed, to the Furries' pre-Creation past--most notably on the gentle acoustic psychedelia of "Y Gwyneb Iau", or the quaint, otherworldly folk of "Pan Ddaw'r Wawr". Mwng is no mere curio, though. SFA's deeper musical excavations come shrouded in a mystical grandeur that infuses the best experimental Welsh music, from Gorky's Zygotic Mynci to little-known Welsh musical pioneers Datblygu (whose hymnal "Y Teimlad" is covered here). And fear not, because the Furries haven't forgotten how to pull off the odd glam-rock stomper--see the sun-flecked, sax-heavy "Ysbeidiau Heulog". Super Furry Animals might sing in Welsh, but on Mwng, they speak the universal language of pop --Louis Pattison
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