Hometown Unicorn Explained

Hometown Unicorn
Cover:SFA-HometownUnicorn.jpg
Type:single
Artist:Super Furry Animals
Album:Fuzzy Logic
Released:26 February 1996
Genre:
Length:3:33
Label:Creation Records
Producer:Gorwel Owen, Super Furry Animals
Next Title:God! Show Me Magic
Next Year:1996

"Hometown Unicorn" is the debut single by Super Furry Animals, released on Alan McGee's Creation Records label on 26 February 1996. It reached #47 in the UK Singles Chart and was voted as "Single of the Week" in NME.

The packaging of the single features a quote in Welsh, 'Bydded goleuni!', which means 'Let there be light!'. This practice of including Welsh quotes was followed by every subsequent SFA single up to, and including, "Demons" in 1997.

"It's about this French teenager called Franck Fontaine who disappeared in 1979, then turned up a week later, claiming he had been abducted by aliens," observed Tim Wheeler of Ash. "Of course, there's always the chance that he went on holiday."[4] A photograph of Fontaine appears on the CD single and on the sleeve of Fuzzy Logic.

Critical response

The track appears in Garry Mulholland's book This Is Uncool, a list of the "500 greatest singles since punk and disco".[5]

Track listing

All songs by Super Furry Animals.

  1. "Hometown Unicorn" – 3:35
  2. "Lazy Life (Of No Fixed Identity)" – 2:15
  3. "Don't Be A Fool, Billy!" – 4:07

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kurland. Jordan. The Mix: 100 Essential Noise Pop Songs. NPR.
  2. Web site: Erlewine. Stephen Thomas. Stephen Thomas Erlewine. Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic Album Reviews, Songs & More. 12 August 2022. AllMusic.
  3. Book: Stanley, Rod. Robert . Dimery . 2016 . . Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic. . London . 773.
  4. Tim . Wheeler . Tim Wheeler . Sci-fi rocks . . August 2007 . 117.
  5. Web site: This Is Uncool. 4 August 2008. RockListMusic.