{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2026}} {{Use British English|date=May 2026}}
{{Infobox album | name = Precreation Percolation | type = compilation | artist = Super Furry Animals | cover = Precreation Percolation.jpg | released = {{start date|2026|5|1}} | recorded = | studio = * Ofn (Llanfaelog, Wales) * Grassroots (Cardiff, Wales) | genre = | length = {{plainlist| * {{duration|m=28|s=11}} (Vinyl) * {{duration|m=78|s=54}} (CD) * {{duration|m=112|s=52}} (digital)}} | label = Strangetown | producer = Super Furry Animals | prev_title = Zoom! The Best of 1995–2016 | prev_year = 2016 | next_title = | next_year = | misc = {{singles | type = compilation | single1 = Pocket Sam | single1date = 12 February 2026 }}}}
{{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic | id=mw0004781840 | title=Precreation Percolation – Super Furry Animals | last=Sendra | first=Tim | access-date=28 May 2026}}</ref> | rev2 = ''Buzz'' | rev2score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite web | website=Buzz | title=The Rhys Ifans era of Super Furry Animals gets its first official release | last=Steen | first=Will | date=1 May 2026 | url=https://www.buzzmag.co.uk/super-furry-animals-pre-creation-percolation-album-review-rhys-ifans/ | access-date=28 May 2026}}</ref> | rev3 = ''Classic Pop'' | rev3score = {{rating|3.5|5}}<ref name=pop_rev>{{cite magazine | magazine=Classic Pop | last=O'Brien | first=Jon | title=Reviews – Reissues: Super Furry Animals – Pre-Creation Percolation | date=9 April 2026 | page=92 | issue=104 (May 2026) | issn=2050-6643 | publisher=Anthem Publishing}}</ref> | rev4 = ''Record Collector'' | rev4score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine | magazine=Record Collector | title=From the Vaults: Super Furry Animals – Pre-Creation Percolation | last=Pollock | first=David | date=19 March 2026 | page=100 | issue=582 (April 2026) | publisher=Diamond Publishing Ltd | issn=0261-250X}}</ref> | rev5 = ''Spectrum Culture'' | rev5score = 70%<ref>{{cite web | website=Spectrum Culture | title=The Rhys Ifans era of Super Furry Animals gets its first official release | last=Hazelwood | first=Holly | date=1 May 2026 | url=https://spectrumculture.com/2026/04/30/super-furry-animals-precreation-percolation-review/ | access-date=28 May 2026}}</ref> | rev6 = ''Uncut'' | rev6score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name=uncut_rev>{{cite magazine | magazine=Uncut | last=Richards | first=Sam | title=Archive: Super Furry Animals – Precreation Percolation | date=27 March 2026<!--magazine date--> | pages=42–43 | issn=1368-0722 | issue=351 (May 2026) | publisher=Kelsey Media | url=https://www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/super-furry-animals-precreation-percolation-reviewed-entertaining-origin-story-of-the-returning-welsh-vagabonds-154442/ | access-date=28 May 2026}}</ref> }}
'''''Precreation Percolation''''' is a compilation album by the Welsh rock band Super Furry Animals, released on 1 May 2026 via Strangetown Records. It contains material of the band before their signing to Creation Records in 1995, starting with the entirety of their debut extended plays ''{{abbr|Llanfair|Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch}}... (In Space)'' (1995) and ''Moog Droog'' on Ankst Records, four songs recorded with original lead singer Rhys Ifans, and a variety of rarities, demos, and 2026 redux versions.
The album was preceded by the single "Pocket Sam" earlier that year, and upon release it was met with positive critical reception and peaked at no. 10 and no. 23 on the UK Independent and Scottish Albums Charts, respectively.
== Content == The albums consists entirely of material prior to the band's signing to Creation Records in the summer of 1995.<ref name=sam /> It begins with the band's first extended plays for Welsh label Ankst: ''{{abbr|Llanfair|Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch}}... (In Space)'' (1995) and ''Moog Droog'' (1995).<ref name=uncut_rev /> The CD version adds several bonus tracks, starting with "Don't Be a Fool, Billy", as seen on the 1995 Fierce Panda Records compilation EP ''Mortal Wombat''.<ref name=sde>{{cite web | website=SuperDeluxeEdition | title=Super Furry Animals / Precreation Percolation | last=Atkins | first=Jamie | date=25 February 2026 | url=https://superdeluxeedition.com/news/super-furry-animals-precreation-percolation/ | access-date=30 May 2026}}</ref> The four following tracks, "Choking on Your Lust", "Pocket Sam", "Of No Fixed Identity", and demo "AK Serenade" are sung by the band's original lead vocalist, Rhys Ifans, all recorded in 1993. Each Ifans-sung track had been previously unreleased, except for "Of No Fixed Identity",<ref>{{cite magazine | magazine=Classic Pop | last=Kirkley | first=Paul | title=Percs and Precreation | date=11 March 2026 | page=52 | issue=103 (April 2026) | issn=2050-6643 | publisher=Anthem Publishing}}</ref> which was released in 2022 as a limited-time Bandcamp-exclusive song to provide benefit for the Severn Estuary.<ref name=pop_rev /> A re-worked version of the song appeared on the single "Hometown Unicorn" as "Lazy Life". Also included are "Dim Brys, Dim Chwys" (Welsh for "No Hurry, No Sweat"), originally aired on BBC Radio Cymru and released on the 1995 Anskt compilation ''Triskedekaphilia'', and a 1993 demo of "The Man Don't Give a Fuck".<ref>{{cite web | website=The Quietus | title=Reissue of the Week: Precreation Percolation by Super Furry Animals | last=Price | first=Simon | date=1 May 2026 | url=https://thequietus.com/quietus-reviews/reissue-of-the-week/super-furry-animals-return-precreation-percolation/ | access-date=30 May 2026}}</ref>
The digital version, in addition to the tracks from the CD, includes primarily instrumental demos. Several would be later fleshed out for their debut album ''Fuzzy Logic'' (1996), and "Something Came from Nothing" is an early version of "Some Things Come from Nothing" from ''Guerilla'' (1999).<ref name=uncut_rev />
== Single and release == The compilation was led with the Ifans-sung single "Pocket Sam" on 12 February 2026. ''Precreation Percolation'' was released the following 1 May via Strangetown Records,<ref name=sam>{{cite web | website=The Line of Best Fit | title=Super Furry Animals detail early years compilation; share Rhys Ifans track 'Pocket Sam' | last=Sandiford | first=Kayla | date=12 February 2026 | url=https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/news/super-furry-animals-detail-compilation-album-share-rhys-ifans-track-pocket-sam | access-date=28 May 2026}}</ref> subsequently placing on the UK Independent and Scottish Albums Charts at no. 10 and no. 23, respectively.<ref name=uk_charts /> The vinyl consists of just the band's 1995 EPs for Ankst Records but is packaged with the 22-track CD version within a "slim card wallet".<ref name=sde />
== Track listing == {{Track listing | all_writing = Super Furry Animals.<ref name=credits /> | headline = Vinyl track listing – ''{{abbr|Llanfair|Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch}}... (In Space)'' and ''Moog Droog''<ref name=uncut_rev /> | extra_column = Original album | title1 = Organ yn Dy Geg | length1 = 3:03 | title2 = Fix Idris | length2 = 3:10 | title3 = Crys Ti | length3 = 2:03 | title4 = Blerwytirhwng? | length4 = 4:59 | title5 = Pam V? | length5 = 4:01 | title6 = God! Show Me Magic | length6 = 1:55 | title7 = Sali Mali | length7 = 4:37 | title8 = Focus Pocus / Debiel | length8 = 4:23 | total_length = 28:11<!--track lengths from Spotify--> }}
{{Track listing | headline = CD bonus tracks<ref name=uncut_rev /> | title9 = Don't Be a Fool, Billy | note9 = ''Mortal Wombat'' version | length9 = 4:12 | title10 = Choking on Your Lust | length10 = 4:15 | title11 = Pocket Sam | length11 = 2:53 | title12 = Of No Fixed Identity | length12 = 4:14 | title13 = AK Serenade | note13 = 4-track demo | length13 = 2:39 | title14 = Bulletproof | note14 = 4-track demo | length14 = 4:24 | title15 = Dim Brys, Dim Chwys | length15 = 5:33 | title16 = Trk05b | note16 = cassette demo | length16 = 5:54 | title17 = The Man Don't Give a Fuck | note17 = 1993 demo | length17 = 2:00 | title18 = AK Serenade | note18 = 2026 redux | length18 = 2:19 | title19 = Bulletproof | note19 = 2026 redux | length19 = 4:10 | title20 = Fine Time | note20 = 2026 redux | length20 = 3:00 | title21 = Quest | note21 = 2026 redux | length21 = 2:25 | title22 = Rise 'n' Shine | note22 = 2026 redux | length22 = 2:45 | total_length = 78:54 }}
{{Track listing | headline = Digital bonus tracks<ref name=uncut_rev /> | title23 = God! Show Me Magic | note23 = demo – 2026 redux | length23 = 2:45 | title24 = Frisbee | note24 = demo – 2026 redux | length24 = 2:48 | title25 = Don't Be a Fool, Billy | note25 = demo – 2026 redux | length25 = 3:03 | title26 = Hangin' with Howard Marks | note26 = demo – 2026 redux | length26 = 4:46 | title27 = Fuzzy Birds | note27 = 4-track demo | length27 = 2:45 | title28 = Rise 'n' Shione | note28 = 4-track demo | length28 = 2:42 | title29 = Something Came from Nothing | note29 = cassette demo | length29 = 3:22 | title30 = Trk05a | note30 = cassette demo | length30 = 5:41 | title31 = Tetrachromancy | note31 = cassette demo | length31 = 6:35 | total_length = 112:52 }}
== Personnel == Credits for tracks 1 through 22 are adapted from the vinyl liner notes.<ref name=credits>{{cite AV media notes | title=Precreation Percolation | author=Super Furry Animals | author-link=Super Furry Animals | publisher=Strangetown Records | year=2026 | id=STR079LP | type=Vinyl liner notes}}</ref>
=== Super Furry Animals === * Huw Bunford – production * Cian Ciarán – production, sketch at Gold Street, Cardiff (track 16), redux at Strangetown, Cardiff (17) * Dafydd Ieuan – lead vocals (18, 19); production; recording and mixing at Column Road, Cardiff (13, 14); mixing at Strangetown, Cardiff (18–22) * Guto Pryce – production * Gruff Rhys – lead vocals (except 10–13, 18, 19), production
=== Additional personnel === * Rhys Ifans – lead vocals (10–13) * Gorwel Owen – recording at Stiwdio Ofn, Llanfaelog (1–8, 10, 15, 17–22), mixing at Stiwdio Ofn, Llanfaelog (1–8, 10, 15) * Paul Bowen – recording and mixing at Palace Road, Cardiff (9) * Quinton Quammie – recording and mixing at Grassroots, Cardiff (11, 12) * Donal Whelon – mastering at Hafod Mastering * Jason Mitchell – vinyl cut at Loud Mastering * Mark James Works – artwork * Kliph Scurlock – SFA archive
== Charts == {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" |+ Chart performance for ''Precreation Percolation'' ! scope=col | Chart (2026) ! scope=col | Peak<br>position |- ! scope=row | Scottish Albums (OCC)<ref name=uk_charts /> | 23 |- ! scope=row | UK Albums Sales (OCC)<ref name=uk_charts /> | 20 |- ! scope=row | UK Independent Albums (OCC)<ref name=uk_charts>{{cite web | publisher=Official Charts Company | title=Precreation Percolation by Super Furry Animals: Chart History | url=https://www.officialcharts.com/albums/super-furry-animals-precreation-percolation/ | access-date=28 May 2026}}</ref> | 10 |}
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links == * {{discogs master|4219488}}
{{Super Furry Animals|state=expanded}} {{Authority control}}
Category:2026 compilation albums Category:Super Furry Animals compilation albums