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Super Furry Animals
Left to right: Gruff Rhys, Guto Pryce and Huw Bunford of the Super Furry Animals at Bridgwater Palace in September 2005
Background information
Origin	Cardiff, Wales
Genres	Alternative rock, indie rock, power pop, neo-psychedelia, electronica, Britpop
Years active	1993–2010, 2015–present
Labels	Epic, Creation, Rough Trade, Placid Casual, Flydaddy
Associated acts	Ffa Coffi Pawb Neon Neon The Peth
Website	Official website
Members	Gruff Rhys Huw Bunford Guto Pryce Cian Ciaran Dafydd Ieuan
Past members	Rhys Ifans

Super Furry Animals are a Welsh psychedelic rock band. Since their formation in Cardiff, Wales, in 1993, the band has consisted of Gruff Rhys (lead vocals, guitar), Huw Bunford (lead guitar, vocals), Guto Pryce (bass guitar), Cian Ciaran (keyboards, synthesisers, various electronics, occasional guitar, vocals) and Dafydd Ieuan (drums, vocals). Actor Rhys Ifans is also a former member.

Super Furry Animals have recorded nine UK Albums Chart Top 25 studio albums (one BPI certified Gold and four certified Silver), plus numerous singles, EPs, compilations and collaborations.

Over the course of nine albums, Super Furry Animals have been described as "one of the most imaginative bands of our time" by Billboard, while according to a 2005 article in NME, "There's a case to be argued that [Super Furry Animals] are the most important band of the past 15 years".

Super Furry Animals formed in Cardiff after being in various other Welsh bands and techno outfits in the area. Ifans, Ieuan and Pryce had been together since the early 1990s and had toured France as a techno group. After Bunford and Ciaran (Ieuan's younger brother) joined, they wrote some songs, and in 1995 signed to Ankst, a Welsh indie label. The band are considered to be part of the renaissance of Welsh music (and art, and literature) in the 1990s: other Welsh bands of the time include the Manic Street Preachers, Catatonia, Stereophonics and Gorky's Zygotic Mynci.

The name of the band came from T-shirts being printed by Rhys' sister. She was making Super Furry Animals T-shirts for the fashion and music collective Acid Casuals (variants of whose name have appeared throughout Super Furry Animals' career – for example, in their song "The Placid Casual", their record label Placid Casual). The band has also made reference to Blur, Elvis Costello, and Wynton Marsalis as major influences in their work.