Radiator (album)

For the album by Radiator, see Radiator (Radiator album).
Radiator
Studio album by
Super Furry Animals
Released25 August 1997
Recorded1997
Genre
Length46:54
LabelCreation
ProducerGorwel Owen, Super Furry Animals
Super Furry Animals chronology
Fuzzy Logic
(1996) 		Radiator
(1997) 		Ice Hockey Hair
(1998)
Singles from Radiator
  1. "Hermann ♥'s Pauline"
    Released: 12 May 1997
  2. "The International Language of Screaming"
    Released: 14 July 1997
  3. "Play It Cool"
    Released: 22 September 1997
  4. "Demons"
    Released: 24 November 1997

Radiator is the second studio album by Welsh alternative rock band Super Furry Animals. It was released in August 1997 by Creation Records, and later the same year in the United States under Flydaddy Records. It peaked at number eight on the UK Albums Chart.[3] In 2005, it was reissued with a bonus disc of other tracks from the time.

Singer Gruff Rhys has described Radiator as "more interesting" than the band's debut Fuzzy Logic with the group taking advantage of producer Gorwel Owen's "Atari computers, and banks of old vintage synths" to create an album which was "musically ... much more adventurous".[4] In 2013, NME ranked it at number 92 in its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.[5] The Radiator campaign also marked the first time the band worked with graphic artist Pete Fowler, who provided paintings for the album and accompanying singles' sleeve. The band felt working with Fowler had provided them with a distinct visual identity, and apart from Hey Venus! have collaborated together on each album since.

  1. ^ "Best Alternative Rock Albums of 1997 | Sputnikmusic". www.sputnikmusic.com. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  2. ^ "The Best Neo-Psychedelia Albums of the 1990s". Album of The Year. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  3. ^ "Super Furry Animals". Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 17 February 2011. Retrieved 3 September 2010.
  4. ^ Martin, Piers (April 2008). "Album by album: Super Furry Animals". Uncut (131): 70–72.
  5. ^ Rocklist.net NME: The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time : October 2013