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Prior to Echo Park, the problem with Feeder was that they always suffered from a lack of rock-star aura. They never said anything controversial. They looked ordinary. They produced straight-ahead rock that didn't rock any boats. They had the problem, a harsh critic might say, of being a bit dull. But then "Buck Rogers" came along and suddenly they were proper chart-shagging pop stars. Okay, so that song has lyrics that lead one to believe they relied on a rhyming dictionary, but Echo Park does have quite a bit going for it. For this outing, Feeder have discovered the joys of knob-twiddling. On the surface, it's more of
Prior to Echo Park, the problem with Feeder was that they always suffered from a lack of rock-star aura. They never said anything controversial. They looked ordinary. They produced straight-ahead rock that didn't rock any boats. They had the problem, a harsh critic might say, of being a bit dull. But then "Buck Rogers" came along and suddenly they were proper chart-shagging pop stars. Okay, so that song has lyrics that lead one to believe they relied on a rhyming dictionary, but Echo Park does have quite a bit going for it. For this outing, Feeder have discovered the joys of knob-twiddling. On the surface, it's more of the third-on-the-bill-at-Reading rock we're used to--big, sing-along choruses made for jumping up and down to. But there's much more going on here. A new embracing of technology has allowed them to fragment their sound, with strange noises bouncing off the deceptively simple tunes. It's not always perfect: "Seven Days in the Sun" sounds like a bit too much like "Closing Time" by Semisonic. But it's preceded by "Piece by Piece", a wavering, claustrophobic ballad which shows that Feeder have apparently grown up. --Emma Johnston
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Manufacturer: Echo
Release date: 23 April 2001
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 4988013199507 UPC: 766486878020
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