Listen to unheard Super Furry Animals song 'Pocket Sam' featuring Rhys Ifans vocals

Welsh musical marvels Super Furry Animals have premiered a previously unheard 1993 song called ‘Pocket Sam’ featuring lead vocals from original frontman, Hollywood icon Rhys Ifans.

‘Pocket Sam’ was recorded to tape at Grassroots Studio in Cardiff 33 years ago when Rhys Ifans was the band’s singer alongside guitarist and future frontman Gruff Rhys, bassist Guto Pryce, guitarist Huw Bunford and drummer Dafydd Ieuan.

Together with ‘AK Serenade’ and ‘Choking On Your Lust’, ‘Pocket Sam’ is one of three Rhys Ifans sung tracks that feature on the bonus disc of Super Furry Animals’ upcoming ‘Precreation Percolation’ compilation album, which explores SFA’s embryonic years.

It’s released on Friday 1st May 2026 and will be available to pre-order here.

Listen to Super Furry Animals’ ‘Pocket Sam’:

‘Precreation Percolation’ centres on SFA’s two debut EPs originally released on the Welsh indie label Ankst, 1995’s ‘Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyndrobwllantysiliogogogochynygofod (In Space)’ and ‘Moog Droog’.

It’s augmented by a 22-track CD / 31-track digital ‘bonus disc’ of material that the band produced prior to signing to Alan McGee’s fabled Creation Records imprint.

“The two-year ‘Precreation Percolation’ was over and, for better or for worse, our lives would never be the same again,” says Gruff Rhys. “But we live to tell the tale. The music featured here features some of the residue of that foundational period.”

The genre experimentation, spanning long-form electro, blissed out instrumentals and expansive prog-influenced rock, heard across much of ‘Precreation Percolation’ was subsequently refined and channelled into Super Furry Animals’ acclaimed debut album ‘Fuzzy Logic’ in 1996.

The release of ‘Precreation Percolation’ coincides with Super Furry Animals’ completely sold-out May 2026 UK tour.

Super Furry Animals play additional shows in Bristol, York, Llangollen, London, Exeter, Dublin, Birmingham and Salisbury, with tickets on sale from Absolute Radio Tickets RIGHT HERE.

Super Furry Animals’ ‘Precreation Percolation’ track-listing:

Standard Black Vinyl / CD1 / Digital – The Ankst EPs:

Organ Yn Dy Geg

Fix Idris

Crys Ti

Blerwytirhwng?

Pam V?

God! Show Me Magic

Sali Mali

Focus Pocus / Debiel

CD2 Bonus Disc / Digital:

Organ Yn Dy Geg

Fix Idris

Crys Ti

Blerwytirhwng?

Pam V?

God! Show Me Magic

Sali Mali

Focus Pocus / Debiel

Don't Be A Fool Billy (Mortal Wombat Version)

Choking On Your Lust

Pocket Sam

Of No Fixed Identity

AK Serenade (4-track demo)

Bulletproof (4-track demo)

Dim Brys, Dim Chwys

Trk05b (Cassette demo)

The Man Don’t Give a F--- (1993 demo)

AK Serenade (2026 Redux)

Bulletproof (2026 Redux)

Fine Time (2026 Redux)

Quest (2026 Redux)

Rise ’n’ Shine (2026 Redux)

Additional Digital-Only Tracks:

God! Show Me Magic (demo - 2026 Redux)

Frisbee (demo - 2026 Redux)

Don't Be A Fool Billy (demo - 2026 Redux)

Hanging with Howard Marx (demo - 2026 Redux)

Something Came From Nothing (Cassette demo)

Fuzzy Birds (4 track demo)

Rise ‘n’ Shine (4 track demo)

Trk05a (Cassette demo)

Tetrachromacy (Cassette demo)

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