Super Furry Animals' frontman Gruff Rhys has been writing for and performing with the well-known Welsh quintet since the band's 1996 debut, FUZZY LOGIC. Like the brain-spinning eclecticism of the Super Furries--which can veer from punk-pop to electronica experiments to sparkling psychedelia to Latin-tinged lounge in an eye-blink--Rhys's first solo outing, YR ATAL GENHEDLAETH, is a stylistically mixed bag. As on SFA's MWNG, Rhys adds another skewed angle to his psychedelic pop-rock by singing all of the lyrics in Welsh. (The album's title is a pun on the Welsh word for contraception, and translates loosely to "the Stopped Generation" or "the Stuttering Generation.")