Feeder
Pushing The Senses

polythene was a really good poppy piece of grungey rock and still my favourite feeder record by a long way...the new stuff is a bit too bland for me, which is a shame cos grants music still has a certain charm to it, even if the songs are so great anymore.

Personally I really like 'Yesterday went to soon'. Polythene really wanted to be the smashing pumpkins.

They DID used to be great, but sadly they are now watered down middle-of-the-road-ness.

She is so sad, the last review paragraph, so sad.

i completely agree too, i was a feeder fan; in fact Polythene was the first album i bought.

but comfort in sound was just way too bland for my liking. Fair enough though - it was a great tribute to a friend. I expected them to get back to their normal bouncy selves by the next album but alas, they just seem to be getting blander and blander.

Yeah! What a copy of winning days... I really don't like their recent album covers. It pisses me off how they try to depict "emotion" through a wierd drawing. It looks like Feeder died with Jon Lee.

It's a better album than comfort in sound - by a long way.. but I know exactly what you mean.. as a HUGE fan I just feel heartbroken knowing the band I loved aren't there anymore..

Really have to agree wholeheartedly with this review (except I think the title track smacks of old Feeder, and makes me all the sadder realising Grant can still write great tracks but chooses to go for a bland tracklist for the album).

I was hit pretty hard by Jon's death as at the time they were one of my favourite bands, but I had never gotten to see them live with Jon playing. I was amazed when I first heard Come Back Around that Grant was able to come back so strongly after something that must have been so devastating.

CiS was a far stronger record than PTS - simply because it still had old Feeder touches - Just The Way I'm Feeling, Come Back Around, Helium etc. But PTS just sounds like Grant has found a songwriting style that apes Coldplay and yields an album full of similar sounding material with little effort.

The live dynamic that made them such a great band seems to have disappeared. Grant looks bored and Taka looks like he's holding back - and Mark is a shocking drummer. I think that may be the root of the problem. He simply can't play half of what Jon could (he was a huge hitter but still very controlled - Mark is just a hitter ala Joey Castillo - see the fall of QOTSA for more...). So we get songs with bland Embrace drum beats, no purpose and no lyrical direction... I could almost be describing the new Idlewild record.

It seems that the great old British rock bands of the 90s have gone soft, and it's time for some new bands to start playing rock music again.

This is a harsh review of an album which I love. Sure it is not the "traditional" Feeder you all seem to aspire to, but that was at least five years ago! Saying Feeder doesn’t sound like Feeder is nothing short of ludicrous!

You want them to be new and fresh and revolutionary like when you first heard them right? No offence but you can't get that. When you first hear a new band there is a wow factor that comes only once. You want to feel that listen to someone else, go find your kicks with likes of the illustrious bloc party and this years batch that grace the pages of NME.

This is a solid band, Feeder always has been. They cannot write about happy optimistic songs all the time anymore than you can smile in the face of adversity day after day. You constantly attack and criticise Grant about Jon's death, but do you even stop to imagine what that means any further than "oh the lyrics got a bit depressing".
Jon was his best mate, I mean if your best mate killed himself what would you think? “Oh never mind lets carry on and write about happy bunnies?” Somehow I don’t think so. You cannot live in static, events effect people, and you say Feeder aren't what they used to be, so tell me who stays exactly the same without sounding like repetitive tripe?

This is a great album, feeling a moment is a beautiful and soulful song drenched in optimism! Bitter glass holds a note of resentment against Jon's actions and tries to explain the thoughts of a lost friend while still managing to enthral. If you stopped making comparisons to past glories and take a moment to listen you will see that, and you want a bit more upbeat well then what about the title track?

I have seen Feeder live this month and they are still great, and will carry on being so, they may not be controversial as or as eclectic as some of the newer bands, but the talent is still there, and their music should always have a place in any collection.

As for cardboard cut outs, lazy lyrics, old drummers, new drummers broken hearts and middle of the road comments Feeder are better than all that, and if you took a chance to look past your preconceptions of the band you would see that.

It’s not all rock and roll. It’s much better than that, a band that can have blissed out tunes as well as take you breath away when they turn it up. Feeder are a rare breed in having the ability to do both. They will always have a massive back catalog, but this is new territory that they walk in, and in Pushing the Senses I think they have out done themselves.

I still love the older songs, I love the newer songs, and Feeder continues to be my favourite band. This album is nothing short of natural progression, and I will defend it and Feeder against all of your criticism until you see sense! Besides talent lasts a lifetime, and when all your comments are forgotten the music will still be there.

Talent and longevity are an intrinsic part of music. You may be enthralled for a moment by a band who are talent less people, but very rarely will you go back to listen to them later - they are in a fact the McDonalds of the music scene, good for a quick fix but I’m damned if you can live off them.

I'm still undeterred, and think that this is an interesting album, so you may not be instantly struck, I guess that’s a point of view thing, and maybe if everyone stopped expecting them to make echo park II it would be better received. Thing is sometimes it takes time for songs to become ingrained on your consciousness, the type that you find yourself singing almost by accident, with the melody stuck in your head, I guess to some people this is one of those albums. Not me though, and besides I don't know what you heard of PTS but I say it’s worth another listen at least.

If you want to see Feeder as they are now go to http://magicalgoat.com/Download.html its not my site but I do happen to be the person behind the guy who is filming (woo-ing loudly) and you can see that they still have the enthusiasm for playing and that the songs are well received by all who were there.

maybe that'll convince you.

Cant wait for feeling a moment its an amazing song and the single is gonna be fantastic!!! The competition to be on the next single is also rocking (www.feederweb.com) bring on april 4th!!!

A few months on I still like the album although feel it needs a couple more rocky tracks on there- ideally Shatter, Victoria and Murmur, the B Sides. CiS is still IMO there strongest record- has a lot more variety and individual character to it. The band themselve still like the heavier stuff so I expect their next record to be rockier..hopefully Descend stylee.