VINYL FORMAT. For music lovers around the globe, the announcement of a new Super Furry Animals album after a two-year hiatus is reason enough to celebrate. That the album is their finest, most cohesive to date is simply the icing on the cake. Super Furry Animals, now in their 11th year of artfully beguiling recordings, have remained one of the most consistently creative, endlessly intriguing, boundlessly inventive and most fiercely loved bands on the planet. And that's a fact.