Gruff Rhys - Candylion

Gruff Rhys on Candylion: "Candylion took form in the spring of 2006 over a fragmented 2 week period at Gorwel Owen’s Ofn studio in Llanfaelog, Wales. My ears were happily ringing from a few months touring with the Super Furry Animals and I had a batch of mellower acoustic songs I wanted to record quickly and get out of the way before the next speaker-blowing SFA record. Once in the studio, however, I got carried away and found myself in a nostalgic mood, pining for some of the music I grew up listening to."

Candylion was raised by bears in Micronesia. Trained as a chef in Paris and following a City & Guilds diploma in desk top publishing at Tregoedwig polytechnic transformed himself into a card assembly image of his former self and arranged for the kind lady at the post depot to mail him back flatpack to his bear brothers and sisters. Safely back in the palm forest he was given lessons in exotic guitar pickin' by a passing oxymoron. He is currently recording his first album.

TRACKLISTING:

1. This Is Just The Beginning 0:50
2. Candylion 2:31
3. The Court Of King Arthur 3:24
4. Lonesome Words 2:55 
5. Cycle Of Violence 2:56
6. Painting People Blue 2:53
7. Beacon In The Darkness 3:18
8. Con Cariño 2:18
9. Gyrru Gyrru Gyrru 3:17
10. Now That The Feeling Is Gone 3:01
11. Ffrwydriad Yn Y Ffurfafen 2:40
12. Skylon! 14:36