Gruff Rhys has often visited these shores to promote his solo records, but with Hotel Shampoo he’s gone a step further and brought an entire band along with him. He performed “Sensations in the Dark” from that record on Jimmy Kimmel’s show last night (June 12), which stirs in elements of everything Rhys does so well—chirpy pop structure, catchy falsettoed chorus lines, and the kind of mariachi horn blasts that he’s been working into songs since Super Furry Animals’ “Northern Lites” back in 1999. Check it out in the clip above.
