Customer Reviews

Silent Cry

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This is a great collection of feeder songs. They all have individuality (they all sound different)and the songs have great lyrics and acoustics. My only issue is the price, 13 songs for basically 40$. My suggestion is you buy it through Amazon UK (www.amazon.co.uk)where you can get the collectors disk(Which has two more great songs) for only around 17dollars (USD, which i am including the shipping price, before any of you object and say that i didn't convert from pounds i did as i bought it from there). If you like what is one this then you should check out "The Singles" by Feeder, "Comfort in Sound" by Feeder and "Picture of Perfect Youth" by Feeder.

Feeder have always been one of my fave bands , and as an expat i wait with baited breath. Just bought this today in Japan , and i think i'm a little up and down . All of Grant and the gangs usual brilliance is here. Well thought out songs , great musicianship and diversity a plenty . However .....its a big however . Will it convert more to the cause ? I sadly doubt it . For long term fans like myself, and i am a huge fan , it continues a great tradition of albums .But for a newcomer it would be hard to see what the fuss is about . There's no real standout track as such ,or obvious "single" . That all said....i love it ....nice one guys , but maybe not enough to spend $30 on if you are looking for an introduction to a great British band .

Feeder have consistently produced some excellent albums over the years, though their last effort "Pushing the Senses" was routine. Here we have some considerably beefed-up and less washy songs from the band, all of a very good standard, but unfortunately their efforts have been spoiled by bad engineering and mastering.
This seems all too common these days, are studio engineers suffering from bad hearing, do they hear things differently to us? Many parts of this album sounds so compressed and over-eq'd it is hard work to listen to, it hurts, the main parts of the music just sound so mushed up. There is some relief in the quiet passages which seem just right, overall this is slightly less of a problem on the better quality vinyl version of this disc but the sound is still obviously poor. The engineers who subject us to this piercing mush effect on OUR records need one of us ordinary listeners to go in and tell them what they're doing wrong before they put the albums out, and they would possibly benefit from a visit to their GP!

Rating - Music 5/5
Sound Quality 2/5