Feeder - 'We Are The People'
Songs are usually pretty one dimensional things don't you think? For a good three or four minutes, a singer will babble on about how awesome life is, or how horrible an ex boyfriend or girlfriend treated them. Bands never seem to want to know what you think. So in the opening seconds of the song I got the chance to answer a probing question asked by Feeder lyricist Grant Nicholas. How kind of them to consider the fans (and me!). Maybe they're attempting to launch a new generation of thought-provoking interactive-type tunes.
"What do you think about miracles?" he asks over the opening riff of another sombre guitar track. Which is a shame, because he could have asked something a bit less complex like, "what do you think about marmite?" or even better "what are you having for tea tonight?", and we could have a discussion. Both of these answers are quite simple, you see - marmite is like eating liquid tar and I'm having fish and chips. With mushy peas of course!
It's clear that this isn't going to be a song to get you jumping around in your living room to create some sort of second rate moshpit like 'Buck Rogers' did. Feeder have now perfected the downbeat, slow-rolling guitar anthem and it works something like this:
1 - Take a mountain of calm sound and add Grant's distinctive vocals.
2 - Make sure the drums aren't too loud and overpower everything else.
3 - Wait for the chorus to kick in for a (relatively) frenzied machine gun blast of drums.
4 - After chorus finishes, repeat steps 1-3 until the song is over.
The band clearly think this formula is a recipe for success, and that people can't get enough of that sound. And yet what they SHOULD be thinking is something along the lines of "it's a miracle no-one has rumbled what we do and demanded we do something a bit more up-tempo."
Though it would be a nice change?
Please surprise me with the next single please. Thank you!
Download: Out now
CD Released: June 9th
(Matthew Laidlow)
Comment number 1.
At 1st Jun 2008, newsandrachael wrote:hey
can someone talk to me beacuse i new hear and i want a new firend
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Comment number 2.
At 9th Jun 2008, saint_conor wrote:If anyone has read this blog please dont be put off by buying their upcoming album, as it is nothing like Pushing the Senses and it DOES reach out to their older material.
If anyone deserves a No1 album it is Feeder, and Silent Cry has some high quality stuff on it. In fact, "we are the people" is one of the slowest songs on the album
Buy it you wont be dissappointed
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