Super Furry Animals - Mwng

While the Super Furries' enduring second LP Radiator would no doubt feature in a corresponding Ragged Words words poll for the previous decade, the Welsh band's noughties entry may on the face of it come from the least likely source, an album sung completely in their native tongue. But Mwng, sat in the middle of one of the most consistently fine cannons of work in music, is the most infectious of the lot. Gruff Rhys would later release solo albums in Welsh, adding further proof that his voice perhaps sounds best when singing in to most what is a strange tongue. The thing with Mwng is, you'll be singing along too, making up your own thickly-vowelled words as you go on. (Padraic Halpin)