Just one question: why is it that when 15 artists, drawn from different musical walks of life, are set loose remixing the latest album by a band already renowned for its eclecticism, every song still ends up sounding like the same plinky-plonky, Aphex Twin-lite, music box, mobile phone ringtone?

OK, well not quite, this really is a very nice album that you could have great fun listening to with big headphones and a face full of mushrooms. The Killa Kela mix of "Golden Retriever" is the pick of the bunch by virtue of being pretty much the only track to retain the fundamental essence of what made the song great in the first place whilst at the same time kicking it into a completely different but equally exhilarating shape. Most of the other tracks revert to the tried and tested formula of cutting out the Beach Boys harmony hooks and pasting them pleasantly but pointlessly over one of those repetitive minimalist beat backdrops that always annoy the shit out of you at gigs in that uncertain ten-to-twenty minute gap between the moment when the band should have come on stage and the moment that they actually do. In the end it's neither a good electronic album, nor a good Super Furry Animals album, just an adequate but disappointing mixture of the two. -Ian Martin, Jun.06.04

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