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This is gonna be an odd pick, but another one of me gushing about welsh boys in bands: Gruff Rhys from Super Furry Animals. He was REALLY cute in the 90’s!
Very much so!
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So far the chances of him making it into the upcoming tournament are kind of slim, but he deserves a shout-out for sure!
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culture-sluts · 7 months
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Gruff Rhys, c. 1996
📸: Martyn Goodacre
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Track of the day // Gruff Rhys - Bad Friend
From the album Sadness Sets Me Free out January 26th via Rough Trade Records.
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bandcampsnoop · 3 days
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3/25/24.
Micah, Jason and I saw Gruff (pronounced Griff) Rhys (Reese) last night in Sacramento. It was one of the coolest overall shows I've seen in a while. Gruff and his band rocked hard and also performed a few "skits".
Opening was Sacramento band Desario. I'd never heard of them, but when I saw the rhythm guitar and bass player had Rickenbackers I was locked in. I'd looked them up before the show and had seen shoegaze bands Ride and Lush used for comparison. But someone also mentioned The Chills and Orange Juice.
Without a doubt there is a shoegazey sound at work, but I see the other band comparisons as being legit. "Signal and Noise" is their newest release (LP on Fort Lowell Records, and CD on Sunday Records) but this band goes back to the early 2000s. Members have been in other Sacramento bands Rocketship and Holiday Flyer.
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spilladabalia · 2 months
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Gruff Rhys - Bad Friend
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sinceileftyoublog · 5 months
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This Is The Kit & Gruff Rhys Live Show Review: 10/19, Lincoln Hall, Chicago
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This Is The Kit's Kate Stables
BY JORDAN MAINZER
On This Is The Kit's latest album Careful Of Your Keepers (Rough Trade), Kate Stables asks many questions without expecting answers to all of them. "When are we gonna get there, when are they?" "If we're holding hands, will we walk at the same speed?" "Boy, I'm talking to you, are you listening?" Okay, maybe that last one is easy (he's definitely not listening), but for the most part, Stables' philosophical quandaries and mantra-like repetitions are metaphors for the uneasy and paradoxical nature of relationships and time. "This is a how shit is this measuring stick," she sings, tongue twisted, on album opener "Goodbye Bite", having difficulty pinpointing exact beginning and ending points of certain eras in her life. If vagaries are the name of the game for This Is The Kit, the band's live performance last Thursday at Lincoln Hall brought to life, via instrumentation, Stables' gently agitated state.
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This Is The Kit's Stables and Rozi Plain
Take "Goodbye Bite", and its concoction of sinewy guitars, bass, synth, and woodwinds: When you're listening to it, it feels like it's encircling your brain, threatening to wedge its way in. Stables, bassist Rozi Plain, guitarist Neil Smith, and drummer Lucien Chatin made sure it finally did when presented live, with a looser structure. Holding it all together, though, was Stables' voice, smoky in contrast to the wiry guitars of "Slider", seeming like it wanted to leap off the page on "Stuck in a Room", a song about wanting to leave where you are but having to stay. Stables' deft delivery sported the stamina of an MC, but over the band's taut music, it sounded like it was bursting at the seams. The elastic-rigid dynamic made its way to even old songs, like on the interplay between Stables' spritely banjo and Chatin's controlled toms on "Bullet Proof".
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This Is The Kit
I should emphasize one more time: Just because Stables--and really, almost all people--has trouble quantifying abstractions like time, doesn't mean the band can't show off their tightness. On the Nick Drake lilt of "This Is When The Sky Gets Big", Stables and Plain staggered their harmonies to stunning effect. "Inside Outside" captivated with a jazzy groove. Really, the main image on "Scabby Head and Legs", that of a pigeon who holds eggs too tight and breaks them, seems like a warning signal for the band itself, who instead follow Stables' repeated advice of "cutting once, measuring twice." Yet, they break the rules when they want to, as long as they know that they're breaking the rules. Or, as Stables sings on "Dibs", "Let's pretend to not know that we're out of time."
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Gruff Rhys
Though This Is The Kit's growth is certainly organic, enlisting Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals as producer on Careful Of Your Keepers is as natural a match as I can remember in recent memory, his experimental whimsy bringing out just enough circular strangeness to the band's sound. Lucky for us, Rhys gave an opening set on Thursday, which meant that he did come out to do backing vocals on a couple TITK songs like on the record. It also meant we got to hear some unreleased songs from his upcoming album Sadness Sets Me Free, the title track, "Bad Friend", and the already released "Celestial Candyfloss" among them. That Rhys played mostly an acoustic set meant he didn't give away what the new songs sound like on record. For one, he admitted to not knowing them very well. The finger-picked guitars on "Celestial Candyfloss" are totally overshadowed by the orchestral chamber pop of the studio version. Sure, some back catalog highlights, like "Lonesome Words" and the metronome-laden "If We Were Words (We Would Rhyme)", were not far cries from their respective studio versions. But Rhys was able to play with volume and his ever-changing distance from the microphone to create a sonic spaciousness on "Pang!" and the melancholy hum of "Shark Ridden Waters". Best, these versions may eventually see the light of day, as Rhys claimed he was recording for a live album, as he held up title cards to a surprisingly sparse crowd that said things like, "Generic audience reaction" so we knew when to cheer. He didn't have to, though. Those of us who were there knew it wouldn't be every day we'd be able to witness two forcefully creative entities on the same night: Our cheers were constant.
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musicollage · 11 months
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Gruff Rhys — Hotel Shampoo. 2011 : High Note.
! acquire the album ★ attach a coffee !
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Mogwai - Two Rights Make One Wrong
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Mogwai
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Mogwai
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Dave Fridmann
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Dominic Aitchison – Bass Stuart Braithwaite – Guitar, vocals Martin Bulloch – Drums Barry Burns – Guitar, keyboard, vocoder John Cummings – Guitar, piano Gruff Rhys – Vocals The Remote Viewer – Programming and banjo Willie Campbell – Backing vocals Charlie Clark – Backing vocals Gary Lightbody – Backing vocals Michael Brawley – Strings and horns
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April 30 2001
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senorboombastic · 10 months
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a/s/l: This Is The Kit
Remember the days of the old schoolyard? Remember when Myspace was a thing? Remember those time-wasting, laborious quizzes that everyone used to love so much? Birthday Cake For Breakfast is bringing them back!  Every couple of weeks, an unsuspecting band will be subject to the same old questions about dead bodies, Hitler, crying and crushes.   This Week: Ahead of releasing new album ‘Careful Of…
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pastelldrache · 10 months
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some positive, calm music
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rainingmusic · 2 years
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Super Furry Animals - Demons 
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annamikhailovna · 2 years
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rhysposting: rotating gruff rhys and his ffrind bach john evans!!!!! they float in the grey matter of my brain all da time... also i LOVE how during the american interior era, gruff would just. Take john with him everywhere like he was his son... He is so dad-coded
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culture-sluts · 7 months
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Gruff Rhys and Howard Marks, c. 1996
📸: Martyn Goodacre
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tuuneoftheday · 1 year
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bandcampsnoop · 25 days
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3/3/24.
theCatherines are a Hamburg-based "band" that basically is Heiko Schneider and a revolving cast of supporters. Heiko has been steadily releasing music for nearly the past decade from his Teeny Tiny Studios.
His work has been evolving into more synth based pop (check out the last track "Love Is The Monster"), but there is still plenty of pop in the vein of The Lookyloos, BMX Bandits, Gruff Rhys and R.E.M. (listen to "Ned Rorem Said").
theCatherines have brought me a lot of pop joy over the past 8 years, and "If I Had Known Then" only continues their consistent string of releases.
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Track of the day // Gruff Rhys - Amen
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