Gruff Rhys Hotel Shampoo

• Shark Ridden Waters
• Honey All Over
• Sensations in the Dark
• Vitamin K
• Take a Sentence
• Conservation Conversation
• Sophie Softly
• Christopher Columbus
• Space Dust
• At the Heart of Love
• Patterns of Power
• If We Were Words (We Would Rhyme)
• Rubble Rubble

Gruff Rhys stays busy outside of his work with Super Furry Animals: he has two solo efforts to his name, as well as Neon Neon with Boom Bip and 2010's collaborative album with Tony Da Gatorra. Hotel Shampoo is his third proper solo LP, and it is at least nominally about a strange habit that Rhys picked up while touring. As he explains it, "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...Having never kept a journal these items have become like diary entries, triggering memories of all those buildings and random people I've met and inspiring some of the songs on the album." An art installation at the Chapter Arts Center in Cardiff accompanied the announcement of the album, and can be previewed here.

Abstract by Matthew Blackwell