FFA Coffi Pawb - Hei Vidal! (1992)

originally released in 1992, 'hei vidal!' is the third album by revolutionary diy cymraeg pop band ffa coffi pawb.

formed in bethesda in 1986 by sixteen year old friends gruff rhys and rhodri puw (later joined by gruff’s super furry animals’ bandmate dafydd ieuan and dewi emlyn). made 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 bowie, bolan and big star) as well as neu! and my bloody valentine 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 synthesiser arrangements and brutal yet surreal imagery and word play in the welsh language.