Super Furry Animals

Super Furry Animals
Super Furry Animals
	Left to right: Gruff Rhys, Guto Pryce and Huw Bunford of Super Furry Animals at Bridgwater Palace in September 2005.
Background information
Origin	Cardiff, Wales
Genres	Alternative rock; indie rock; power pop; neo-psychedelia; electronica; Britpop;
Years active	1993–2010; 2015–2016 (on hiatus);
Labels	Epic; Creation; XL; Beggars Banquet; Rough Trade; Placid Casual; Flydaddy; Strangetown;
Past members	Gruff Rhys; Huw Bunford; Guto Pryce; Cian Ciaran; Dafydd Ieuan; Rhys Ifans
Website	www.superfurry.com

Super Furry Animals are a Welsh rock band formed in Cardiff in 1993. For the duration of their professional career, the band consisted of Gruff Rhys (lead vocals, guitar), Huw Bunford (lead guitar, vocals), Guto Pryce (bass guitar), Cian Ciaran (keyboards, synthesisers, various electronics, occasional guitar, vocals), Dafydd Ieuan (drums, vocals). An earlier incarnation of the band featured actor Rhys Ifans on lead vocals.

Super Furry Animals has recorded nine UK Albums Chart Top 25 studio albums (one BPI certified Gold and four certified Silver), plus numerous singles, EPs, compilations and collaborations. The band were known as central to the Cool Cymru era during which they were dominant, and are the act with the most top 40 hits without reaching the UK Singles Chart Top 10. Over the course of nine albums, Super Furry Animals has been described as "one of the most imaginative bands of our time" by Billboard, while according to a 2005 article in NME, "There's a case to be argued that [Super Furry Animals] were the most important band of the past 15 years".

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