Seven Sleepers
Reviewed by : The Fan
Released: Japan Only, 2009, Format: CD
Tracklisting :
01. Seven Sleepers
02. Snowblind
03. Public Image
04. Tracing Lines
05. We Are The People (Acoustic)
06. Somewhere to Call Your Own
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The credit crunch has a lot to answer for. With Southampton Football Club on the verge of going out of business (hurray!) and the price of a Cadbury’s Whisper up to a whopping 50p (boo!) – things have certainly been up and down.
Another victim of this harsh financial climate is Feeder, who, despite everything – have to come to hit some kind of form recently… spectacularly coinciding with the implosion of the Echo record label.
So much so that we’re all having to import their music from Japan. All these years of pointing at our Asian cousins and laughing uncontrollably as they have to wait six months to buy a compilation of B-Sides we’ve already bored of long ago has come back to haunt us – as we quietly and politely ask them, with sweet puppy dog eyes, if perhaps we can borrow their copy of Seven Sleepers, because, you know, we haven’t heard it yet.
It’s a cracking CD, too – easily enough to extinguish the rancid taste left behind from Blighty’s Tracing Lines debacle - a nice little cardboard slipcase package, peculiarly oversized perhaps, completely ruining your neat looking stack of promo CD’s, complete with obi-strip and more funky black and gold artwork.
Ruin it’s long-term value by actually opening it, and you’ll find that the CD is full of great things, too. We’ve all heard Tracing Lines and the acoustic of We Are The People, but Seven Sleepers also serves up Feeder’s cover of ‘Public Image’ (more cockney shenanigans from Grant, who’s now officially less-Welsh than we are, and we’ve only been there once when we got lost on our way to Crewe), plus two brand new tracks previously unheard in the UK.
Also – Somewhere to Call Your Own has FINALLY been burned on to a bloody CD for the first time ever in history. Was it worth the wait? No. Of course it wasn’t. In the same way the mythical ‘Blemish’ will probably turn out to be an early version of Pain On Bloody Pain, Somewhere to Call Your Own is undoubtedly the weakest of Seven Sleepers six tracks and after hearing the acoustic version of We Are The People just before it, you’d probably be forgiven for thinking you’ve stumbled across a ‘Grant Busking’ CD instead.
What makes Seven Sleepers great is the two core tracks making its monstrously good heart beat. If you didn’t like Silent Cry, you’ll no doubt think differently of course, as Seven Sleepers and Snowblind ouse the same summer-beating-puffins-to-death-with-a-funky-punky-music-stick of Itsumo and Into The Blue etc. We like it so much, we’ve invented a brand new music genre for it - that’s how good it is.
Beating puffins to death (above) has never been so much fun
Seven Sleepers is fun. Fun, fun, fun. There’s a wicked beat going on throughout, and Grant’s lyrics are delivered as if he’s singing about something really naughty he did at school. Lost & Found’s happy clapping returns in droves, and the song finishes with a proper climax, leaving you wanting more. And you get it.
Snowblind (from now on referred to as ‘FIELDS of FIRE’ for greater dramatic effect) is right out of the ‘I wish I was a Bond song’ book of making music for movies.
In fact, ‘FIELDS of FIRE’ is exactly the same in length as ‘Who’s The Enemy’, which also happens to be the exact same length as the opening credits to the latest Bond movie ‘Quantum of Solace’. Coincidence?
Maybe. Maybe not. But there’s no denying that ‘FIELDS of FIRE’ would have done a hell of a good job at setting the scene for an explosive Bond flick. Filmmakers, of course, instead opted to go with Jack ‘not even British’ White and Alicia Keys, who performed some dodgy R&B thing which made children cry.
Disappointing for sure, but you get the feeling that Feeder are getting closer and closer to something pretty big, and a James Bond film would be just the ticket. Grant’s been banging on about them (he mentioned it in an interview once, we vaguely recall / guess) since Yesterday Went Too Soon, and what could be better than the band adding themselves to that famous list of ‘Bond song contributors,’ and Mark Richardson finally dressing up as Shirley Bassey?
Seven Sleepers rocks. You can probably turn it off after the fourth track, to be fair, but it still does enough to make your day a better one – and we absolutely can’t wait to see what Feeder come up with next. Good times.
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Bloody Ages Away: Feeder to release their 6th Studio Album
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06.11.06 Feeder to perform at the Roundhouse in London in aid of War Child
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07.11.06 Feeder to perform at the Roundhouse in London in aid of War Child
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09.11.06 Feeder to perform at the Coronet in London in aid of War Child
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15.12.06 Hanukkah!
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23.12.06 Christmas Eve's Eve
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24.12.06 Christmas Eve
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26.12.06 Boxing Day
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31.12.06 New Years' Eve
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01.01.07 New Years' Day
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Bloody Ages Away: Feeder to release their 6th Studio Album
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06.11.06 Feeder to perform at the Roundhouse in London in aid of War Child
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07.11.06 Feeder to perform at the Roundhouse in London in aid of War Child
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09.11.06 Feeder to perform at the Coronet in London in aid of War Child
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15.12.06 Hanukkah!
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23.12.06 Christmas Eve's Eve
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24.12.06 Christmas Eve
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26.12.06 Boxing Day
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31.12.06 New Years' Eve
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01.01.07 New Years' Day
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Bloody Ages Away: Feeder to release their 6th Studio Album
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06.11.06 Feeder to perform at the Roundhouse in London in aid of War Child
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07.11.06 Feeder to perform at the Roundhouse in London in aid of War Child
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09.11.06 Feeder to perform at the Coronet in London in aid of War Child
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15.12.06 Hanukkah!
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23.12.06 Christmas Eve's Eve
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24.12.06 Christmas Eve
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26.12.06 Boxing Day
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31.12.06 New Years' Eve
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01.01.07 New Years' Day
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Bloody Ages Away: Feeder to release their 6th Studio Album
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