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Super Furry Animals' synth wizard Cian Ciarán has always made his voice heard.

As a campaigning musician and an impassioned activist he is a rarity in a world where pop and politics invariably make for uneasy bedfellows.

This week may be all about the return of the Furries after a six-year hiatus but there’s no let-up for the musician with a social conscience. Ciarán has recorded a protest album alongside former Beta Band frontman Steve Mason, and poets Stephen Burke-Morrison and Hollie McNish.

The as-yet-untitled album will be released in the summer, but will be preceded by a series of singles that will coincide with the run towards the general election.

Those aforementioned singles begin to emerge, symbolically on Wednesday, April 1, as Ciarán and poet Stephen Morrison-Burke castigate what they see as the fools in power.

Stand Up features the Super Furry Animal and last year’s National Poetry Slam Champion Morrison-Burke coming together to decry the dissolution of social support services and privatisation of the NHS.

Super Furry Animals: The albums

Second release, Since I Was A Little Girl/End Game arrives on Wednesday, April 29.

Since I Was A Little Girl embraces Hollie McNish’s gift for say-as-you-see-it truths. Her ability to craft hard-hitting social commentaries have seen her YouTube views hit numbers in their millions, be invited to perform at the Glastonbury Festival and also become the first poet to record at Abbey Road.

Sharing the billing on the second release is End Game, where Strangetown Records regular (and collaborator with SFA drummer, Dafydd Ieuan) Rashid Omar aka Wibidi, voices his objection to the Trident programme.

Completing the pre-election trilogy is Don’t Give It Away/Revolution Of The Mind/Womb To Urn, which will be released on Wednesday, May 6 – the day before the general election.

Don’t Give It Away sees Ciarán team up with Steve Mason for the song which carries with it a caustic message, calling the election a “subsidised ego trip” and “grabbing them (politicians) by the throat”.

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The flipside Revolution of Mind has words from Louisa Roach of Liverpool-based outfit, She Drew the Gun – who count James Skelly of The Coral and Steve Lamacq as fans.

Roach’s words reveal a confused view of a broken and inhumane world.

The release is completed by Womb to Urn which features the emerging talent of 23-year-old Enbe, from Ely in Cardiff.

Speaking about the project, Ciarán said: “What has happened in established politics is nothing short of criminal, testing my faith in humanity.

"We see blatant, systematic rebalancing of the books, favouring private greed over public wealth, to ensure the deserving majority is left with nothing in favour of an immoral minority.

"The coalition has worked harder to protect this imbalance than anyone could have imagined, ruling through deception and fear. This is our response to those injustices and, in writing and releasing the tracks, ask that voters consider whether members of the political and business elite really have their best interests at heart.”