Hello Sunshine

The new Super Furry Animals website is up : Phantom Power!
Looks a bit like a work-in-progress, but there's shit there.

The album actually comes out in America at the same time as the rest of the world (July 22). But does the DVD? It's not as good as their last couple (which would quite a feat). But it has its moments.
What is Phantom Power? According to Gruff Rhys, “Speakers and microphones work on phantom power, there’s no batteries and they’re not connected to the mains, and yet they work. Similarly, as a band our make up is the same as anybody else and yet we write songs and play music to people, and we have no idea why. It’s a mysterious power source. I like the idea of it, a phantom power that nobody understands.
“’Phantom Power’ also sounds like a sinister power source that controls the world from beyond people’s comprehension. And a lot of the things that go on today seem completely illogical and I think we watch the world go by with disbelief.”