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Gruff Rhys Announces Details Of New Album 'Hotel Shampoo'

8:46 a.m. · November 9, 2010 · by Nick Neyland

We’ve already had a taste of Gruff Rhys’s new album Hotel Shampoo in the shape of this video for “Shark Ridden Waters,” and now comes full details on that upcoming release. The record will be released on Feb. 14, and the title appears to be Rhys’s chance to let go of an OCD-like part of his personality that has slowly taken over his life.

"In 1995 I began touring the world industrially as a pop musician,” Rhys says. “A gleaming new cosmos of hotel accommodation opened up for me and in an instant I was seduced by the free product available in the rooms. I hoarded these objects in a rush of mild kleptomania. Every room in my house began to amass these plastic bottles and various, hotel-related things from every continent on earth (except Antarctica).”

Rhys has staged an exhibition of his pilfered hotel goodies in Cardiff at the Chapter Arts Center, so you know where to go if you are in Wales and have a desire to see the inner workings of the Super Furry Animals’ frontman’s mind. Anyone not near Wales can view the construction of the exhibit in the video above.

The track listing for Hotel Shampoo looks like this:

01 Shark Ridden Waters

02 Honey All Over

03 Sensations In The Dark

04 Vitamin K

05 Take A Sentence

06 Conservation Conversation

07 Sophie Softly

08 Christopher Columbus

09 Space Dust

10 At The Heart Of Love

11 Patterns Of Power

12 If We Were Words (We Would Rhyme)

13 Rubble Rubble