Il trio gallese dei Feeder pubblica nel 2001 un nuovo lavoro dal titolo "Echo Park". Seguito di "Yesterday Went Too Soon", primo disco di Grant Nicholas e soci ad entrare direttamente nella top ten U.K., il nuovo album inizia a discostarsi in maniera parziale dal tipico sound espresso dai gallesi sino a quel momento.
Gil Norton, produttore già di Foo Fighters e, soprattutto, Pixies (dei quali i Feeder sono grandissimi fans, non a caso suonano spesso e volentieri dal vivo il grande classico "Where Is My Mind?"), co-produce il disco insieme al gruppo.
L'album è spiazzante già dalle sue battute iniziali: "Standing On The Edge", l'opener, è un pezzo straniante, basato su eteree sonorità elettroniche che vengono interrotte qua e là da sfuriate noise notevoli. La voce di Grant è effettata e monocorde nella strofa, ma passa improvvisamente al falsetto nel ritornello. Il classicone del gruppo, "Buck Rogers", riporta tutti sulla terra, e sfodera chitarre graffianti come non mai; diventerà la hit distintiva del gruppo.
Un'altra sorpresona ce la riserva la riflessiva "Piece By Piece" che, su un tappeto ritmico zoppicante ma impreziosito dagli arpeggi della chitarra acustica, ci mostra il lato più intimo e delicato della band.
Con "Seven Days In The Sun" la band riprende a picchiare forte, ma stavolta la melodia e solare e molto estiva, così come le liriche ("I've got a friend, her name is Laura/We took a holiday, seven sweet days in Majorca/ We took a plane through to southern Spain/To see the ocean wave's blue"), e si prosegue con una incisiva ma cadenzata "We Can't Rewind". "Turn" è un classico britrock lineare e dominato da piacevoli chitarre "impastate", così come "Oxygen", che però è più lenta. Così, superate sfuriate grunge versante Nirvana ("Choke", "Tell All Your Friends") e college rock à la Weezer ("Under The Weather"), il lavoro si chiude sulla cattivissima "Bug", allucinata e violenta.
Rimangono, quindi, i classici assalti chitarristici del combo gallese, ma in molti casi sono "addolciti" da melodie piuttosto orecchiabili e piacevoli; non c'è una nuova "Stereo World", per interderci.
Un grande album, che già lasciava intendere le grandi doti di songrwiter di Grant Nicholas, e che rivelò in tutta Europa il talento dei Feeder.
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01 Standing on the Edge (03:13)
There's a message on my bed anew engraving in my overloading head
Feel the walls are caving in as the wire cuts into my butter skin
Overload love's the antidote we need love's the antidote we really need
When you're all by yourself standing on the edge of the world
Take a look at yourself don't fall back in
I thought I shot my conscience dead
But he's come back again to break my china head
Blown a hole right through my dream
Brought me back to earth in a rocket made for one
Overload love's the antidote we need it's the antidote we really need
When you're all by yourself standing on the edge of the world
Take a look at yourself don't fall back in
Cause when you're all by yourself standing on the edge of the world
Take a look at yourself don't fall back in don't fall back in
02 Buck Rogers (03:13)
He's got a brand new car
Looks like a jaguar
It's got leather seats
It's got a CD player
But I don't wanna talk about it anymore
I think we're gonna make it
I think we're gonna see the end
So don't you try and fake it
Anymore, anymore
We'll start over again
Grow ourselves new skin
Get a house in Devon
Drink cider from a lemon
But I don't wanna talk about it anymore
I think we're gonna make it
I think we're gonna see the end
So don't you try and fake it
Anymore, anymore
I think we're gonna make it
I think we're gonna see the end
So don't you try and fake it
Anymore, anymore
He's got a brand new car
He's got a brand new car
A brand new car
A brand new car
A brand new car
I think we're gonna make it
I think we're gonna see the end
So don't you try and fake it
Anymore, anymore
I think we're gonna make it
I think we're gonna see the end
So don't you try and fake it
Anymore, anymore
03 Piece by Piece (03:49)
Sitting on a corner street
Children playing at my feet
See the smiles on ice cream faces
Feel myself begin to sink
As the wind blows through my skin
Leaves me open to temptation
Cause nothing ever lasts forever
We're like flowers in this vase together
You and me it's pulling me down
Tearing me down piece by piece
And you can't see that it's like a disease
Killing me now it's so hard to breathe
Sucking back a cigarette
Thinking about new regrets
Trying to be someone you'd like to be
Passing faces on the road
Where the hell can we still go
Leaves us open to temptation
Cause nothing ever lasts forever
We're like flowers in this vase together
You and me it's pulling me down
Tearing me down piece by piece
And you can't see that it's like a disease
Killing me now it's so hard to breathe
It's so hard to breathe
But it's worth fighting for, it's still worth fighting for
It's worth fighting for
Cause nothing ever lasts forever
We're like flowers in this vase together, Here
You and me it's pulling me down
Tearing me down piece by piece
And you can't see that it's like a disease
It's killing me now it's so hard to breathe
You and me it's pulling me down
Tearing me down piece by piece
And you can't see that it's like a disease
It's killing me now it's so hard to breathe
05 We Can't Rewind (03:51)
You're just a face in the crowd
A tiny hole in the cloud
You're trying to find your way in
To let your soul shine back out
We're just a twist in a seam
A splash of paint on a screen
We're making all kinds of shapes
Somehow we can straighten out the bends
This is our time, we can't rewind
Our place to shine out, we can live it anyway
This is our time, to feel sublime
Our place to shine now, and we can do it anyway
We can't rewind
Do you think we can change?
A different color and shade
I guess a new kind of thing
Somehow we can straighten out the bends
This is our time, we can't rewind
Our place to shine out, and we can live it anyway
This is our time, to feel sublime
A place to shine now, we can do it anyway
Oh yes, we can do it our way then
Stop taking me for a fool now
Yeah, I've got this feeling inside me
But I guess you knew
We can work it out
We can find some place new
We can't rewind
We can't rewind
You're just a face in the crowd
A tiny hole in a cloud
This is our time, we can't rewind
Our place to shine out, and we can live it anyway
This is our time, to feel sublime
A place to shine now, and we can do it anyway
This is our time, we can't rewind
Our place to shine out, we can do it anyway
This is our time, to feel sublime
A place to shine now, and we can do it anyway
06 Turn (04:30)
Seeing things going places
Living out of suitcases
Every day's like a dream
I find myself talking to shadows
Taking the train of youth back home again
Cause I don't want to be a hero
But I don't want to be a zero
And I don't want to sit here wasting time
I just want a place inside your mind
I wish that I could turn the clocks right back
It's easy to forget just what you've got
Seeing things going places
Meeting all kinds of faces
Every day's like a scene
I find myself going through phases
Trying to find somewhere that I can be me
Cause I don't want to be your hero
But I don't want to be a zero
And I don't want to sit here wasting time
I just want a place inside your mind
I wish that I could turn the clocks right back
It's easy to forget just what you've got
I'm not trying to find an easy way
Picking up the pieces of a page
I'm looking for a place inside your head
Cause I don't want to leave it all behind
So come on, give in, there's no beauty in this pain
So come on, connect, we've got to find ourselves again
Cause I don't want to be your hero
And I don't want to sit here wasting time
I just want a place inside your mind
I wish that I could turn the clocks right back
It's easy to forget just what you've got
I'm not trying to find an easy way
Picking up the pieces of a page
I'm looking for a place inside your head
Cause I don't want to leave it all behind
And I don't...
07 Choke (03:20)
She likes big boats big yachts designer throws
She likes big blokes body oil sex that chokes
Her mother left her when she was fifteen out of the nest into the vacuum flow
She got a job working shifts at Sainsbury's packed her bags and left for Monaco
Choke choke choke choke
You're the only pill I take lift me up to where the clouds are snow
Cause you're the only thrill I feed ease the pressure let the whole thing flow
She likes Belgo fashion heads,Saville Row
She likes the cheap sex private jets the Paris glow
Her mother left her when she was fifteen out of the nest into the vacuum flow
Choke choke choke choke
You're the only pill I take lift me up to where the clouds are snow
Cause you're the only thrill I feed ease the pressure let the waters flow
You're the only pill I take lift me up to where the clouds are snow
Snow snow snow choke choke choke choke
You're the only pill I take lift me up to where the clouds are snow
You're the only thrill I feed ease the pressure let the whole thing flow
Cause you're the only pill I take lift me up to where the clouds are snow
You're the only thrill I feed ease the pressure let the whole thing flow
08 Oxygen (04:20)
We all ferment
A face can change
But souls stay young
We're all connected
So take a journey with someone
Learn to be as one
Still living, sinking, falling, twisting,
But I'm breathing you in, breathing you in
Oxygen, Oxygen
We all ferment
A taste can change
From days so young
You feel rejected
Just hold your head up to the sun
Learn to be as one
Still living, sinking, falling, we're still living, drifting
I'm breathing you in, breathing you in
Still living, sinking, feeding, twisting, I'm living
I'm breathing you in, breathing you in
Disconnecting
Oxygen, Oxygen, Oxygen
Still living, sinking, falling, twisting
We're still living, I'm breathing you in, breathing you in
Still living, sinking, falling, drifting
We're living, I'm breathing you in, breathing you in
I'm breathing you in, breathing you
09 Tell All Your Friends (02:55)
Staring out to reach a star contemplating life on mars
Life's a cover magazine I'm an eggshell under feet
Till I see this house under pale blue skies
With golden fields that will burn your eyes
So let's take a drive underneath the sun
New intentions all around put the brakes on slow it down
Trying to find a new release find a space that you can breath
But I've seen a house under pale blue skies
With golden fields that will burn your eyes
So let's take a drive underneath the sun
But don't come around pulling me down telling the world how I let you down
Just tell all your friends I wanna dream with you
So tell all your friends and neighbors too CNN BBC world news
Tell all your friends I wanna dream with you
Tell all your friends tell all your friends tell all your friends
I don't wanna sit here catching flies
Cause I have seen this house under pale blue skies
With golden fields that will burn your eyes
So let's take a drive underneath the sun
But don't come around pulling me down telling the world how I let you down
Just tell all your friends I wanna dream with you
So tell all your friends and neighbors too CNN BBC world news
Tell all your friends I wanna dream with you
Tell all your friends
10 Under the Weather (03:33)
I've got a pain in my sick brain
Two red eyes and broken veins
I've got a hand inside my head
A chainsaw cutting through my bed
I wish that I was still fifteen
Debbie Harry or Steve McQueen
I found the angel in my dream sucked her dry
And cut her wing
L.A. food store cabinet
Get up, shut up give me nurofen plus
Shut up, it hurts feel I been hit by a bus
Get up, shut up, you know you don't understand
I'm feeling under the weather
From the womb into school
Changing faces breaking rules
Circumstances make you bleed
Sew the wounds so you will heal
Cause there's no substitute for pain
Histrionics broken frames
Build a fire to thaw my brain
L.A. food store cabinet
Get up, shut up give me nurofen plus
Shut up, it hurts feel I been hit by a bus
Get up, shut up, you know you don't understand
I'm feeling under the weather
I don't know why I do this, time and time again
Cause all my drowning sorrows became my friends
I've got a pain in my sick brain
Two red eyes and broken veins
I've got a hand inside my head
A chainsaw cutting through my bed
I've got a pain in my sick brain
Two red eyes and broken veins
I've got a hand inside my head
L.A. food store cabinet
Get up, shut up
Give me nurofen plus
Shut up it hurts feel I've been hit by a bus
Get up shut up you know you don't understand
I'm feeling under the weather
I've got a pain in my sick brain
Two red eyes and broken veins
I've got a hand inside my head
A chainsaw cutting through my bed
I've got a pain in my sick brain
Two red eyes and broken veins
I've got a hand inside my head
A chainsaw cutting through my bed
11 Bug (03:42)
Mother Earth can you feed us now feed me now feed me now
Mother Earth can you see us now hold me down hold me down
Revolution revolution revolution revolution
Mother Earth can you feed us now burst the bug be forever loved
Hold me down you can't hold me down break the bones throw your stones
Revolution revolution revolution revolution revolution revolution
You gotta fight it
You can fight it no one else will
You gotta fight it
You can fight it no one else will
You gotta fight it
You can fight it no one else will
You gotta fight it
You can fight it no one else will
Feed me now see me now
Mother Earth can you see us now throw the stones throw the stones
Revolution revolution revolution revolution
Revolution revolution revolution revolution
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Di presoblu
“Echo Park è un ottimo album che alterna pezzi più tirati ad altri più tranquilli e pieni di quella melodia tipicamente inglese.”
“In definitiva Echo Park è un bell’album che alterna momenti da pogo a toccanti momenti riflessivi.”
