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On this day, 12 May 1996, Welsh rock band, Super Furry Animals played Cardiff University.
The band’s debut album Fuzzy Logic was to be released the same month, recorded at the nearby Rockfield Studio having signed for the Creation record label.
It was positively received by the critics with the influential Q Magazine featuring it in their “Best British Albums Ever” list in 2004, whilst peaking at 23 in the UK album charts.
In a 2008 interview with Uncut Gruff Rhys described the process of making the album:
“We'd signed a deal and we were sort of blagging a bit ... We'd heard about Rockfield Studios and we wanted to record there because they had jacuzzis and you got three meals a day, all the wrong reasons for going to a studio.”
The album cover is a montage of photos of Welsh-born drug smuggler Howard Marks, the subject of the song "Hangin' with Howard Marks". Marks visited Rockfield during the making of the album at the band's request.
