Hotel Shampoo

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AlbumJan 01 / 201113 songs, 40m 43s98%
Indie Pop Neo-Psychedelia
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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.

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.

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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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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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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."

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."

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.

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.

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

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

5 / 10

5 / 10

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Album Reviews: Gruff Rhys - Hotel Shampoo

Album Reviews: Gruff Rhys - Hotel Shampoo

4.0 / 5

Gruff Rhys - Hotel Shampoo review: A glimpse of Gruff Rhys' world.

4.0 / 5

Gruff Rhys - Hotel Shampoo review: A glimpse of Gruff Rhys' world.

Hotel Shampoo, Turnstile Records ***

Hotel Shampoo, Turnstile Records ***

6 / 10

6 / 10