American Interior (2025 Remastered Bonus Edition) (Indie Exclusive Apricot/Purple/Rosé Vinyl 3LP)
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Back in 2014, Welsh songwriting superstar and Super Furry Animal Gruff Rhys quite literally took his show on the road with American Interior, an ambitious album, documentary, tour, and book that captures Rhys following in his explorer ancestor John Evans' footsteps. Newly remastered and set for reissue as a 2LP and deluxe 3LP edition, these are the songs that found Gruff Rhys traversing "Mandan and Omaha tribe reservations, a Missouri vineyard, villages that no longer exist and lay at the bottom the Mississippi river, and a New Orleans bordello". - Flying Out
In 2012 Gruff Rhys embarked on a solo 'investigative concert tour' through the heart of America following the route taken by his distant relative John Evans. Every night he presented songs augmented by a power point presentation that detailed his relative's unbelievable history, along with any new piece of information that had come his way during the day. He was ultimately looking for Evans's lost unmarked grave. Along with many major cities, the tour took him to play shows at the Mandan and Omaha tribe reservations, a Missouri vineyard, villages that no longer exist and lay at the bottom the Mississippi river and a New Orleans bordello.
What transpired from that ‘investigative concert tour’ was a 2014 album, American Interior, plus a book, film and exhaustive tour of the same name. With the aid of the dusted-off power point presentation, Gruff Rhys and a full band revisits the project in 2025 to perform the songs that formed both the album, and the soundtrack to the film.
Tracklist:
1. American Exterior
2. American Interior
3. The Whether (Or Not)
4. The Last Conquistador
5. Lost Tribes
6. Liberty (Is Where We'll Be)
7. Allweddellau Allweddol
8. Walk into the Wilderness
9. Sugar Insides
10. 100 Unread Messages
11. That's Why
12. The Swamp
13. Media Quake
14. Cylchdro Amser
15. Iolo
16. Y Gwenan Gorn
17. Year of the Dog
18. Tiger's Tale
19. I Grombil Cyfandir Pell
20. Ar Goll
21. Y Madogwys Neu Angau
22. Power Point Presentation
23. American Exterior (Extended Version For Two Synthesizers)