Hometown Unicorn

{{Infobox song

| name = Hometown Unicorn

| cover = SFA-HometownUnicorn.jpg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Super Furry Animals

| album = Fuzzy Logic

| released = 26 February 1996

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| studio =

| venue =

| genre =

  • Noise pop{{cite web|last=Kurland|first=Jordan|title=The Mix: 100 Essential Noise Pop Songs|url=https://www.npr.org/2012/06/14/155014576/the-mix-100-essential-noise-pop-songs|publisher=NPR}}
  • psychedelia{{cite web|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine|title=Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic Album Reviews, Songs & More|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/fuzzy-logic-mw0000080925|access-date=12 August 2022|publisher=AllMusic}}{{cite book|first= Rod|last= Stanley|editor-first= Robert |editor-last= Dimery |year= 2016 |title= 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die |chapter= Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic|publisher= Cassell Illustrated |location= London |page= 773}}

| length = 3:33

| label = Creation Records

| writer = Super Furry Animals

| producer = Gorwel Owen, Super Furry Animals

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| 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."{{cite journal|first= Tim |last= Wheeler |author-link= Tim Wheeler |title= Sci-fi rocks |journal= Q |date= August 2007 |page= 117}} 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".{{cite web | url=https://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/thisisuncool.htm| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060709190502/http://rocklistmusic.co.uk/thisisuncool.htm| url-status=usurped| archive-date=July 9, 2006|title=This Is Uncool|access-date=4 August 2008|publisher=RockListMusic}}

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

References