Echo Park - Feeder

Advantages: Sweetly sung vocals, infectious choruses, powerful instrumental construction.
Disadvantages: Some of the lyrical choices are a little questionable.

Released in 2001, 'Echo Park' is the third studio album from Feeder; a twelve track construction of music featuring such infectiously catchy single releases as 'Buck Rogers' and 'Seven Days in the Sun' also. The album has a run time of just over 45 minutes in length and a strong 45 minutes of music it is too. The 'Echo Park' album consists of powerful guitar riffs a plenty, some super drumbeats, and the excellent vocal tone of front man Grant Nicholas ...
...of this album the line-up of Feeder was to change due to the suicide of the bands original drummer Jon Lee, this therefore resulted in a change in sound and direction for the band but 'Echo Park' is I feel the last truly great Feeder album to have been released. 'Echo Park' takes on more of a commercial rock sound than the first two Feeder albums ever did, it's a sound that has here worked out well for the band however and always this release has ... Read review

Advantages: 12 cracking tracks without any filler
Disadvantages: Last album as the original lineup

...in April 2001, they released Echo Park as their third full length album, at the same time as the re-release of Swim. I think this was really the make or break album for the band and if things had back fired it would have been the end of Feeder. The results were pleasing and won the band a much larger fan base with the new sound and from there Grant seems to have excelled himself. He has created a more soulful, relaxed feel to the album and that ...
...riffs are still mixed in along with a slower pace that actually enhances the band's overall sound. A lot of the album is in a similar vein to “Buck Rogers”, the guitars play the main part of each track with the drums keeping a good backing beat and tempo. It’s a simple formula and one that Feeder seems to have worked to their advantage with this album. The guitars really stand out on each track with both the lead and bass guitars really holding ... Read review

Advantages: All the songs have brilliant guitaring and Grant Nicholas is a brilliant singer. Also all the songs build up to the chorus very well.
Disadvantages: Only 45 minutes long!

...23rd of April this year, Echo Park is the latest and most successful album from the rock band Feeder. It contains the number 5 hit single, Buck Rogers and the brilliant Seven Days In The Sun single which made 14 in the charts. Feeder are Grant Nicholas (Singer and guitarist) Jon Lee (Drummer) and Taka Hirose (Bass guitar). There is a good range of music style on this album, like there are really fast up beat tracks like Bug, Buck Rogers and Seven ...
...Days In The Sun so much. Echo Park can be picked up for around £10. It has a very bright front and back cover with quite a strange design on it in mainly blue. The only down point to the album is that there are only 45 minutes on it! ... Read review

Advantages: it'll get you jumping
Disadvantages: easily forgettable

Okay, got the music on in the background (surprisingly enough it’s Feeders ‘Echo Park’), got me cuppa beside me, and my photo’s of T in the Park just incase I forget my enthusiasm at some point! I’m ready, are we sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin… I was at T in the Park this year to see a load of my favourite bands. Feeder where playing on the main stage and to be honest I had NO clue who they were. Fortunately ...
...we hung about to experience them. So they came on, (Sorry took a few moments to come back to you, ‘buck Rogers’ was on in the background, and kinda had to bounce about for a bit, quieter track now so, where was I?), eh, and started playing and I recognised their music immediately from the radio, well their big hits anyway. They where incredible! They’re music is catchy and loud and expressive and borders on a lot of genre’s ... Read review

Advantages: Feeder are the future of British Indie/Rock music
Disadvantages: Could have done with a few more songs

Echo Park is Feeder’s third full-length album. It follows their brilliant 6-track mini-album, Swim (1996), their brilliant debut album proper, Polythene (1997) and their last, and it has to be said, brilliant, album Yesterday Went Too Soon (1999); the title track of which is my favourite song of all time: absolutely brilliant. That word keeps popping up, and it is well-deserved. Feeder are a Welsh-Japanese trio, consisting of Grant Nicholas ...
...Lee (Drums). For me, they are a combination of all the best bits of bands like Oasis, Manics, Coldplay, Stereophonics, Ash, and many more. As you will no doubt have noticed, all these bands are from these fair Isles, and Feeder are, without a doubt, a quintessentially British Rock/Pop/Indie guitar band, who write melodic, anthemic, punchy songs, perfect for jumping up and down to, and singing along to. You may have heard of them? Touring like there’s ... Read review

Advantages: Most lyrically complete and Feeder reached there peak(so far)
Disadvantages: Depressing....but very reflective

...This is the critically acclaimed album from feeder. It is there 4th studio album after there platinum selling album "echo park". This album takes a whole new turn in the Feeder saga. Echo Park was a fun and upbeat album. Which includes hits such as "Buck Rogers" and "Seven Days in the Sun". This album mourns and is constantly searching for the meaning of life. In January 2002, Drummer, Jon Lee committed suicide. Although Grant Nicholas (Lead singer and song writer) had already begun work on the album there is still a sense that the album was wrote purely for his best friend. Its is certainly produced to give this feeling. Track listing: Just the way I'm feeling: Absolutely classic feeder. A massive tune, with guitars and strings. Everyone I know loves this song 10/10 Come Back Around: One of the rockier songs on the album... Read review

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Advantages: Lyrics in the sleeve, on one of the best game soundtracks ever, and it is just great !!
Disadvantages: short only 45 mins of music for 12 tracks

...Album number three from the Welsh/Japanese trio sees the band riding on a current wave of popularity, following the chart success of recent singles Buck Rogers and Seven Days In The Sun. Echo Park, named after a suburb of LA (a deliberate ploy to lure the US market?) lies comfortably between the band’s two previous albums. The overiding strength of this most recent offering lies in its crossover appeal – it is a CD that would be at home in the collections of both indie and rock fans alike whilst maintaining enough commercial sensibility to appeal to a much wider, Top 40 loving audience. Featuring some of main man Grant Nichol’s best songwriting to date, Echo Park should finally see Feeder attain the level of success for which they have been striving over recent years. The added bonus is that several of the bands... Read review

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Advantages: Cathartic lyrics and friendly melodies
Disadvantages: Poppity pop pop.

...When I first discovered Feeder, back in the summer of 2001, Echo Park provided exactly what I needed. My parents had divorced, my father was away on holiday with his new girlfriend, and I was free to play the aggressive optimism of Echo Park as loud as I dared my speakers to go. I got into them, and the news of John Lee's suicide shocked me as much as any other fan, and I was glad to hear the news that they were going to continue. The world could do with more song's like Turn, and Oxygen, so the release of 2002's Comfort in Sound was a mitigated disappointment. There was some good tracks - Moonshine stands out on a personal level, whilst Come Back Around and Forget About Tomorrow added to Feeder's popular fanbase. But it always felt like a disappointment after Echo Park. The edgy, loud screaming tracks, the feel-good Seven Days... Read review

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