{"title":"Artist: Ffa Coffi Pawb","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"hei-vidal-ffa-coffi-pawb-lp","title":"Hei Vidal! [Japanese Import]","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eKEY FEATURES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003eLimited Edition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003e1xLP pressed on Clear Vinyl\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003eOriginally released in 1992\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003eThird album by the DIY Cymraeg pop band\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eRELEASE DESCRIPTION\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally released in 1992, \u003cstrong\u003eHei Vidal!\u003c\/strong\u003e is the third album by the revolutionary DIY Cymraeg pop band\u003cstrong\u003e Ffa Coffi Pawb\u003c\/strong\u003e. Formed in Bethesda in 1986 by sixteen-year-old friends \u003cstrong\u003eGruff Rhys\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eRhodri Puw\u003c\/strong\u003e (later joined by \u003cstrong\u003eGruff’s Super Furry Animals\u003c\/strong\u003e’ bandmates \u003cstrong\u003eDafydd Ieuan\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eDewi Emlyn\u003c\/strong\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMade by a bunch of 21 and 22-year-olds, Hei Vidal! is an album that distills the band’s obsessions with early ’70s power-pop (all the B’s from \u003cstrong\u003eBowie, Bolan, and Big Star\u003c\/strong\u003e) as well as \u003cstrong\u003eNeu!\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eMy Bloody Valentine\u003c\/strong\u003e into a sound that predates the fuzzed out return to glam heralded by Oasis a few years later. It merges motorik grooves over saturated shoe-gazing fuzz with impressionistic studio manipulation, orchestral synthesizer arrangements, and brutal yet surreal imagery and wordplay in the Welsh language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaving signed their songs over to a local publisher who eventually disappeared off the face of the Earth, Ffa Coffi Pawb’s music has been out of print for decades (with the exception of the 2004 compilation album Am Byth, released on the SFA-associated \u003cstrong\u003ePlacid Casual\u003c\/strong\u003e label). After untangling a complicated web of time, Hei Vidal! will be available on streaming services and vinyl for the first time having only been on cassette and very few CD copies on its original release on Ankst in 1992. The reissue marks the 30th anniversary of the band’s final show at Builth Wells Memorial Hall in August 1993 (supported by a young \u003cstrong\u003eGorky’s Zygotic Mynci\u003c\/strong\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHei Vidal! track Ffarout is available now on all streaming platforms, with a b-side Tocyn, a cover of the Bethesda-based band Brân’s primitive sounding 1974 glam rock stomp the last song Ffa Coffi Pawb recorded, released on an Ankst compilation album in 1993.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGruff Rhys on Hei Vidal! “We made the record in our early 20s and it was a dream-pop distillation of our early 1970’s Glam, power-pop \u0026amp; Motorik obsessions - combined no doubt by our devotion to shoe-gazing contemporaries from the Creation label, American college rock, and our heroes of the Welsh language underground like \u003cstrong\u003eDatblygu, John Cale, and Y Cyrff\u003c\/strong\u003e. The nonsensical album title is a quote from the song Colli’r Goriad and the Vidal in question perhaps a hallucinated amalgamation of \u003cstrong\u003eGore Vidal\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eVidal Sassoon\u003c\/strong\u003e; both of which were omnipresent personalities on early 90’s TV, one as a pundit the other a seemingly rolling TV shampoo advert.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTRACKLIST \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClymhalio\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFfarout\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProfion Moddion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWyneb i Waered\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDilyn Fy Nhrwyn\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eColli'r Goriad\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArwynebol Melyn\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSega Segur\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHelo Traeth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePelydr Secs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOfn:Cwn\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLluchia Dy Fflachlwch Drosda i\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eLISTEN\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eAvailable on Desktop \u0026amp; Mobile\u003c\/em\u003e \u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"352\" width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/4IgYRq1LFQTcTcMdOx2pPQ?utm_source=generator\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Ffa Coffi Pawb","offers":[{"title":"LP \/ Clear","offer_id":42451484934335,"sku":"ARDG1LP-CL","price":41.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/6947\/3471\/files\/ARDG1LP-FfaCoffiPawb-HeiVidal.jpg?v=1692427147"}],"url":"https:\/\/helixsounds.com\/collections\/artist-ffa-coffi-pawb.oembed","provider":"Helix Sounds","version":"1.0","type":"link"}