After nearly a decade of near-total silence, the world’s most joyfully unpredictable Welsh band has finally re-emerged — and, true to form, they’re doing it on their own terms.

In their first full-band interview since 2016, Super Furry Animals sit down with Uncut Magazine to look back on their chaotic, kaleidoscopic career — and ahead to a full-scale return. With their Supacabra 2026 Tour already sold out across Britain and Ireland, and a lavish 20th anniversary reissue of Love Kraft due October 24, it seems the Furries are once again where they’ve always secretly thrived: somewhere between nostalgia and reinvention, wrapped in their signature fuzz of surreal humour.

“We turned down the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury for ‘Rings Around The World’, because our sound guy couldn’t do it, he was going on holiday in France,” frontman Gruff Rhys recalls with his trademark understatement. “We turned Oasis down for Loch Lomond because we were below The Bootleg Beatles on the bill.”

It’s one of many typically sideways anecdotes that have long defined Super Furry Animals’ mythology — a group who’ve always seemed just slightly allergic to conventional career moves. Their new conversation with Uncut pulls no punches, from tales of street dogs interrupting the Love Kraft sessions in Brazil to an unexpected backstage clash with Bruce Springsteen’s drummer, Max Weinberg. (“He thought we were trying to steal his brass section. We weren’t. But it got… heated,” laughs Rhys.)

Back from the Ether

For a band who could once crash a Glastonbury set with a rogue campervan or politely reject Coca-Cola’s cash for artistic reasons, the return of Super Furry Animals feels oddly necessary — a reminder of when rock could still be smart, funny, and just a little bit anarchic.

The forthcoming Supacabra 2026 Tour, kicking off May 6 in Dublin, sold out within hours of announcement. Across nine dates — from Glasgow’s Barrowlands to two nights at London’s O2 Brixton Academy — the full original lineup of Rhys, Huw Bunford, Cian Ciarán, Dafydd Ieuan, and Guto Pryce will share a stage for the first time since 2016. Support comes from the likes of Getdown Services, Honeyglaze, The Bug Club, and Melin Melyn, all bands clearly touched by the Furries’ fearless genre-bending legacy.

If the tour name hints at mayhem — Supacabra sounds like something half-mythical, half-motorized — the accompanying visuals promise exactly that. According to Rhys, 16-foot-tall mechanical horses are “still on the table” as potential stage props. Whether they appear or not, the sense is clear: the Furries are back to be gloriously themselves.

Revisiting Love Kraft

Timed to the tour, the 20th Anniversary Reissue of Love Kraft arrives via Cardiff’s Strangetown Records on double vinyl, 2-CD, and digital formats. The 2005 album — their lush, expansive seventh LP — has aged beautifully, its warm analog textures and choral dreaminess now freshly remastered by Donal Whelan at Hafod Mastering.

Long regarded by fans as the band’s most sumptuous work, Love Kraft felt like a sunny hangover after their electro-apocalyptic Phantom Power — a record full of strings, harmonies, and the kind of melodic optimism that only Super Furry Animals could deliver without irony.

The reissue gathers 23 rarities, including a newly unearthed gem called “Rock N Roll Flu”, which drummer Daf Ieuan describes as “a song about one of the worst hangovers I’ve ever had.” The art, once again, features Pete Fowler’s miniature dioramas and Mark James’ sleeve design — tactile reminders of an era when album artwork was part of the storytelling.

Still Furry, Still Free

Super Furry Animals’ legacy has always thrived in contradiction: major-label budgets paired with anti-corporate instincts, pop hooks hidden beneath surrealist collage, activism dressed in space suits. Their decision to say no to the obvious — to Oasis tours, U2 support slots, or Coca-Cola endorsements — may have cost them commercial dominance, but it secured something rarer: credibility, and cult immortality.

Nearly 30 years since they first signed to Creation Records, the band still defies easy classification. And perhaps that’s why their reappearance in 2025 feels so right. In a pop landscape driven by algorithmic sameness, the Furries’ weird, warm human chaos is exactly what’s been missing.

When Love Kraft spins again this October, and when those opening chords ring out in Dublin next spring, it won’t just mark a reunion — it’ll sound like the return of a world that’s been waiting for something truly unpredictable.

We turned down the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury because our sound guy was on holiday

Author: Andrew Braithwaite

Andrew is the founder and chief editor of Music Talkers. He's also a keen music enthusiast and plays the guitar.