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Graham Clark
Music Features Writer
@Maxximum23Clark
11:05 PM 17th August 2019
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Album Review - Feeder - Tallulah (Believe Records)

 
Welsh rock band Feeder originally broke through in the era of Britpop. Things have changed an awful lot in music since then and so have Feeder. It is 3 years too since the release of their last album. In 2019 they sound reinvigorated and refreshed. It's hard to believe it is nearly 25 years since they came to mainstream acceptance.

Apparently the title of the album Tallulah is named after the daughter of lead singer, Grant Nicholas' wife's best friend's daughter!

What hasn't changed though is the bands knack of writing melodic rock songs, but on this new offering there is definitely a strong American influence. The first track on the album Youth sounds like Green Day mixed with a Beach Boys influence as Grant Nicholas sings "California Here We Come" with the theme about "wishing we were still young". The thought of getting older crops up again on Fear of Flying where Nicholas sings "why can't we grow old naturally".

Blue Sky Blue it seems was written with Liam Gallagher in mind and his new album, but it turned out the recording of the album had finished. The track would have certainly suited Gallagher in that it is very Oasis influenced.

Daily Habit follows about our coffee culture habit. If the band say they are going through their Pan American influences then it's Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers who they are looking towards here. Same again on Rodeo which could be a Tom Petty track or even The Travelling Willburys.

The band even deep into some nu metal on the track Kyoto that brings to mind Metallica with the guitar riffs and dark menacing soundscape. It sounds like nothing they have done before.

The album might be totally unfashionable and like nothing else in the singles charts right now, but this sounds like a band who have rediscovered what made them great in the first place.

I rate the album 4 out of 5