Hotel Shampoo

by Gruff Rhys

Hotel Shampoo cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 14 February 2011
  • Label: Turnstile
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 40:24
  • Community rating: 3.6/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The Super Furry Animals frontman supposedly funded this solo record with a massive collection of miniature toiletries hoarded from various tours. 'Hotel Shampoo' offers a whimsical, piano-driven set of psychedelic pop bursting with his trademark Welsh eccentricity and observational humor.

Genres

Descriptors: dreamy, witty, fuzzy, experimental, jangly, folk, acoustic, melodic, piano

Tracklist

  1. Shark Ridden Waters (4:24)
  2. Honey All Over (3:15)
  3. Sensations in the Dark (2:40)
  4. Vitamin K (3:04)
  5. Take a Sentence (3:03)
  6. Conservation Conversation (2:38)
  7. Sophie Softly (2:09)
  8. Christopher Columbus (3:31)
  9. Space Dust #2 (2:19)
  10. At the Heart of Love (3:32)
  11. Patterns of Power (3:35)
  12. If We Were Words (We Would Rhyme) (3:11)
  13. Rubble Rubble (2:58)

Credits

  • Kimberly Scott - primary artist, backing vocals [background vocalist], vocals [prayer], backing vocals [background vocals], vocals [rap vocals], written-by
  • Sharon Sanders - hair [hair stylist]
  • Craig Bartock - instruments [all instruments played by], written-by
  • Rachel Oden - written-by
  • Julie Mays - backing vocals [background vocalist]
  • Nikki Laws - backing vocals [background vocalist]
  • Jonathan Waller - keyboards [additional keyboards], programmed by [keyboard programmer], drum programming, programmed by [percussion programmer], arranged by, programmed by [drum, bass, keyboard and percussion programming], programmed by [drums, percussion, bass and keyboard programming by], written-by
  • Deborah Cox - arranged by [background vocal arrangement by], backing vocals [background vocalist], written-by

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