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Comfort In Sound is Feeder's fourth album and the first recorded without drummer Jon Lee. It's sound is epic in scope and the album contains some of the most mature songs Grant has ever written, as well as many of his best too. From the spine-tingling wall of sound that is the title track to the inescapable melancholy of 'Love Pollution' and 'Quick Fade' - it's lyrics and themes are dark and intensely personal; it's contents flickering between despair and hope. Awesome but devastating at the same time, it is Feeder's most sophisticated and ambitious record to date. It is also their best.
Just The Way I'm Feeling
Come Back Around
Helium
Child In You
Comfort In Sound
Forget About Tomorrow
Summer's Gone
Godzilla
Quick Fade
Find The Colour
Love Pollution
Moonshine
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It looked as if 2002 was going to be a rip-roaring year for power trio Feeder. On the back of the athemic Buck Rogers single, their patchy fourth album, Echo Park, had sold rather more than it deserved. Nonetheless, there was clearly better to come from songwriter Grant Nicholas and his two cohorts.
The, on 7 January, Feeder's Miami-based drummer Jon Lee hanged himself 20 minutes after Nicholas, not recognising the caller's number, elected not to answer Lee's call to the singer's mobile. Clearly it's something Nicholas will have to live with for the rest of his days. Understandably, he's chosen to take, for want of a better phrase, comfort in sound.
Artistically, Comfort In Sound is an almighty leap forwards from Echo Park, a clear case of nascent potential now fulfilled. It brims with mostly beautiful hooks, heartfelt lyrics of loss and redemption and the unmistakable thrill of nettles being grasped. With erstwhile Skunk Anansie drummer Mark Richardson a capable substitute, Comfort In Sound wouldn't have sounded especially different had Lee lived - some of these 12 songs were allready written - but it must certainly feel different. Once they decided to continue, and surely quitting was never a serious option, Nicholas and his bassist Taka Hirose have had to grow up in a manner that only those close to genuine tradgedy could understand.
It begins in magnificent fashion, Just The Way I'm Feeling has an orchestral backbone, powerchords to spare and basks in the plaintive air that pervades the whole enterprise. Forget About Tommorrow is cut from the same cloth, but it's even better. In essence, it's the album's fulcrum; soaring of sound but desperately moving of intent. If it's about Lee - although we must be chary of assuming everything here is - then it's a worthy epitaph for a misguided soul.
The intensity never dims. Although there's nothing quite as superlative as thise two tracks, the psychadelic Moonshine, juddering Helium and elegiac Summer's Gone are far superior to previous Feeder fare.
With Comfort In Sound, Feeder have a work that should take them into the next stage. It will sstand as a monument; not just to Lee, but to Nicholas's gifts. Tragically, they must always be The Band Whose Drummer Killed Himself. Now, though, there is something else to talk about.