Welsh five-piece Super Furry Animals are known for crafting catchy orchestral psychedelic pop-rock -- hence the terribly "trippy" cover art for their latest album Hey Venus. The band's been together since '94, and while most UK groups of that time period have split up or gone on permanent hiatus, SFA are still going strong. For that, you can credit the drugs. Seriously though, the Furries make songs with sunny melodies and melancholy, nearly doo-wop arrangements that come off effortlessly. Check out the above track "Run-Away," which begins with the simple yet heartbreaking (and difficult to discern, at least in the live version) declaration: "This song is based on a true story, which would be fine if it wasn't autobiographical." Ouch.

Opening for SFA is Holy Fuck, an irresistible, improvisational electro-rock band, who combine traditional instruments (a couple drum kits, bass, keyboards) with various non-traditional noisemakers, like toy phaser guns. If you miss them tonight, you can catch 'em exactly two weeks from now, when they open for A Place to Bury Strangers at Chop Suey.

Even better? Looks like those are the only two bands on the bill this evening. If doors are at 8 and the show starts at 9, we might be home by midnight. Here's to Neumo's and an early Tuesday.

8pm doors // Neumo's // 925 E Pine St // $15 // 21+