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Comfort in Sound was the fourth album by the British Rock band Feeder. It was released on October 21, 2002 on The Echo Label,[1] and was the first album to be released after Jon Lee's death.[2]
The album received many high scoring reviews, and a year later helped them win "Best British Band" at the Kerrang! awards.[3]
To date the album has sold 500,000 in the UK and 600,000 worldwide.[4] The album went Platinum in the UK eight months from its release date,[5] and got to #6 in the charts.[6] The album was re-issued a week after the "Find The Colour" single with a bonus DVD of the albums videos and various live footage including the "Just a Day" video.[7]
[edit] Release
The album was given a low-key promotional build up due to the death of their late drummer Jon Lee. Before the albums release the band played a small number of festivals at Reading/Leeds, and Gig on the Green. Before these two were played, a warm-up show at the Portsmouth Wedgewood rooms, took place two days before Reading. All of the festival shows were played on the second stage, to maintain the low-key status of the shows and albums build-up. Both shows at Reading and Leeds both seen the tent packed beyond its capacity, with many people watching from outside as a result. Before being invited to the festival, the bands original plan was to release the album and not play any shows during the year, with the airplay of the albums first single "Come Back Around", to promote the album on pre-release. The single got it's first airplay on BBC Radio 1's "The Evening Session" show, and was A-listed by the station. A completely instrumental version of the album was issued to TV & Radio media.
[edit] Reception
While being well received by critics, it also had a similar response commercially. The album charted at #66 in the 2003 end of year charts, and also peaked at #6 on the weekly listing spending 36 weeks on the top 75. It also became the band's first platinum album the same week the band were due to make their main stage debut at Glastonbury, and also spawned a major radio and TV play hit in which "Just the Way I'm Feeling" gained over 15,000 UK radio plays. Their performance at the Glastonbury Festival was very well received by the press, and given coverage on BBC Three and BBC Radio 1 later in the year. Despite infamous negative comments from Lauren Laverne on BBC Three's late-night coverage regarding the band, many critics and attendees to the festival gave their show at the festival a positive response.
Touring was also a peak for the band, in which they played a UK sell-out 21 date tour in March-April 2003 in front of 60,000 people, which also aided the albums platinum sales success. The success of the tour followed by their main stage debut at Glastonbury (they were third on the final day's bill), influenced them to play an arena tour at the end of the year. Although the tour was not a sell-out, they sold all 8,000 tickets for the Bournemouth International Centre gig, sold a wide majority of the tickets for the Birmingham National Indoor Arena gig and got positive reviews by the music press for the shows that were covered.
[edit] Accolades
- #32 in Kerrang! magazines "Top 100 British Rock Albums of All Time" list.[10]
- Rock Sound- "Album of The Month".[11]
- Kerrang!- "Album of The Week".[11]
- Metal Hammer- "Album of The Month".[11]
- The Times- "Album of The Week".[11]
[edit] Award Nominations
- "Best Album" at the 2003 Q Magazine awards.[12]
[edit] Track listing
[edit] British / Irish / American / Australian version
- "Just the Way I'm Feeling" – 4:22
- "Come Back Around" – 3:12
- "Helium" – 3:15
- "Child in You" – 3:27
- "Comfort in Sound" – 3:46
- "Forget About Tomorrow" – 3:51
- "Summers Gone" – 4:49
- "Godzilla" – 2:05
- "Quick Fade" – 4:24
- "Find the Colour" – 3:47
- "Love Pollution" – 4:13
- "Moonshine" – 6:49
[edit] Continental European version
- "Just the Way I'm Feeling"
- "Come Back Around"
- "Helium"
- "Child in You"
- "Comfort in Sound"
- "Forget About Tomorrow"
- "Summers Gone"
- "Godzilla"
- "Quick Fade"
- "Love Pollution"
- "Moonshine"
[edit] Japanese / Korean / Hong Kong version
- "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"
- "Opaque"
- "Emily"
[edit] Original version
This was an original track listing for the album, songs with a * after them were dropped from the final track listing, and have never since been released but some might have been working titles for songs that did make the album.
- "All In All"*
- "Walk"*
- "Just the Way I'm Feeling"
- "Come Back Around"
- "Find the Colour"
- "Helium"
- "Child in You"
- "Ascend"*
- "Godzilla"
- "Before We Find Out"*
- "Crystal"*
- "Late"*
- "Forget About Tomorrow"
[edit] Chart performance
| Chart (2005) |
Peak
position |
| UK album chart |
6 |
| Irish album chart |
27 |
| Japanese album chart |
98 |
| UK Album Chart |
| Week |
01 |
02 |
03 |
04 |
05 |
06 |
07 |
08 |
09 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
13 |
14 |
15 |
16 |
17 |
18 |
19 |
20 |
21 |
22 |
23 |
24 |
25 |
26 |
27 |
28 |
29 |
30 |
31 |
32 |
33 |
34 |
35 |
36 |
| Position |
6
|
25
|
55
|
74
|
(RE)72
|
35
|
16
|
14
|
13
|
21
|
27
|
31
|
39
|
49
|
57
|
61
|
(RE)66
|
49
|
38
|
31
|
21
|
26
|
28
|
40
|
55
|
58
|
(RE)74
|
(RE)45
|
52
|
67
|
(RE)73
|
(RE)51
|
42
|
43
|
41
|
55
|
| Top 75 IRMA Irish album chart |
| Week |
01 |
02 |
03 |
04 |
05 |
06 |
07 |
08 |
| Position |
27
|
42
|
57(RE)
|
28
|
58
|
36
|
48
|
62(RE)
|
| Top 100 Japanese Oricon Chart |
| Week |
01 |
| Position |
98
|
| Sales |
2630
|
[edit] References
