Super Furry Animals Bing Bong

Limited to just 1000 copies. One sided 12” with etched flip side and artwork by Pete Fowler

The rapturous response of fans attending shows by Super Furry Animals since their first tour in six years began in 2015, and the inspirational rise of the Welsh football team, has blown a fresh breeze into the sails of the band as they announce their first new music since 2009’s Dark Days/Light Years album.

Recorded in Cardiff late last year, Super Furry Animals will release BING BONG on Friday 13 May 2016; just a month before Wales is represented by eleven, fearless footballers aiming to unite the continent during Euro 2016. A band that always sought out moulds to shatter, the wait for new material will end with the Furries emerging from the studio to spread hope and harmony in a reinvention of the totemic, communal anthem.

Further information on the single is to be announced in the coming weeks, with music, live performance and video remaining under wraps until then.

Returning to studio action for the first time since 2009, the band also returned to friend and long-time collaborator, the artist Pete Fowler to design the artwork for the single and a soon-to-be-revealed range of official BING BONG, football terrace-ready merchandise.

Following release of the artwork, Fowler reflected: “With a title like BING BONG, I went with the flow and came up with something that I hope matches that exuberance. Immediately I thought that it should be text based, something really strong and bold, dispensing with some of the more character-driven stuff we’ve done together in the past. The band’s name has also found its way out! Sketches went from including footballs, to perhaps one or two small figures that unfortunately wouldn’t make the final cut, but in the end it was a constellation of stars, referencing the Euros, in bright colours and the wonderful simplicity of those two, magic, playful words that won the day – BING BONG!”

BING BONG features all five members of Super Furry Animals: Huw ‘Bunf’ Bunford (guitar/vocals), Cian Ciarán (keys/bleeps/vocals), Dafydd Ieuan (drums/vocals) Gruff Rhys (vocals/guitars) and Guto Pryce (bass).