天から降りてきた声のようなコーラスが胸を打つ、冒頭いきなりの名曲"Feeling A Moment"からして、フロントマンのグラントのソングライティングの質が次なる段階へ進んだことを感じずにはいられませんでした。 この曲然り、今作は通して一定の浮遊感(勿論良い意味で)が漂っていて、それは喜びと哀しみの間を漂い、生と死の間を漂うかのようです。 それでもとにかく前に進んで行こうとする強い清い意志が感じられます。
続く"Bitter Glass"や"Pushing The Senses""Pilgrim Soul"は以前の彼らならもっと無邪気なハードチューンになってもおかしくなかったのですが、これまでの肩肘力の入ったハードネスではなく、もっと冷めた情感で以って鳴らされこれまた新鮮な響き。 特に"Bitter Glass"のグラントのファルセットを聴く度、本当に良いヴォーカリストになったなと思います。
5つ星のうち4.0Dead good - shame about the artwork (ditto "Comfort In Sound")
2016年11月16日に英国でレビュー済み
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Anthemic melancholic rock interspersed with slower songs - all consistently top notch. Feeder are a great band - it's only taken me 20 years to discover them. Their new album looks fab too - great video for the stonking opener, "Eskimo".
Anxiously anticipated and not disappointing. This is a superb album and am currently playing it on repeat. Tumble and Fall was a strange choice as a single as there are plenty of songs on this album that would have more representative of the album overall and that were stronger songs to showcase the album. Still, I love it. Highlights - so many! Feeling a Moment is quite uplifting; Bitter Glass, poignant and beautiful; Morning Life, upbeat with an infectious melody. I could go on and on. There is nothing to criticise yet. It's rare that you can buy an album these days and like more than half of the tracks - not so here. You'll love it, I promise!!! Thank you, Feeder!
I bought the Japanese edition of this album because I fell in love with the track "Shatter" - although this is supposedly not the same as the recent single, I can't tell the difference between the two versions and I own both. This track does not appear on the standard edition. This is not my usual style of music, being more of a Big Beat, Trip Hop sort of girl, but I have been wooed by the intelligent arrangements and the sheer repeatability of this album. While I find Coldplay and the Stereophonics whining and trite, Feeder have here produced an album that draws the listener in with engaging lyrics and evocative soundscapes. 'Bitter Glass' shows they can do Coldplay better than Coldplay while 'Shatter', the track that got me to buy the album in the first place, shows they can also do the Foo Fighters end of the spectrum - I prefer this track even to the FF's track "Times Like These", which had been on my list of Desert Island Discs. Great stuff.
Had to buy this as am a huge Feeder fan, great music again from the group, hope to collect more of their music, especially some of their early stuff as only been into them for a little while but love the Rock