Hotel Shampoo

Pitchfork 7.6/10 Super Furry Animals frontman offers his third solo album, which opens byways back to the songcraft he so expertly mastered with his main band.

A.V. Club F Welsh odd-pop whiz Gruff Rhys is notoriously difficult to pin down stylistically, and usually that works for him. Strapped to a sturdy band or collaborator like Super Furry Animals or Neon Neon, his roving eye for left-field electronics, breezy tropicalia, playful psych-rock, and freaky folk is a valuable asset. But…

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Under The Radar 7.0/10 Gruff Rhys' last album was a collaboration with an unknown Brazilian protest singer/instrumentalist named Tony Da Gatorra, who invented his own instrument, a peculiar combination of guitar and drum machine referred to as the "gatorra."

Clash 8/10 Super Furry Animal, sometime Danger Mouse, Gorillaz and Boom Bip collaborator, and newly minted movie director, Gruff Rhys is quite the renaissance man.

Slant 4/5 Hotel Shampoo neatly channeling all of Rhys’s wonderful eccentricities into an intelligent pop record.

The Irish Times 3/5 Hotel Shampoo, Turnstile Records ***