| Torpedo | ||||
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| Released | 18 March 2022 | |||
| Recorded | 2020–2021 | |||
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| Length | 45:28 | |||
| Label | Big Teeth | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Clash | 6/10 [1] |
| Classic Rock |   [3] |
| Gigwise |   [4] |
| Kerrang! | 4/5 [5] |
| Rock 'N' Load | 9/10 [2] |
Torpedo is the eleventh studio album by Welsh rock band Feeder, released on 18 March 2022 through Big Teeth Music.
In August 2019, Feeder released their tenth studio album, Tallulah . The album was a commercial success - debuting at number 4 on the UK Official Charts Company albums chart, it was the bands first album in almost fifteen years to crack to the top five of the chart. [6] [7] Feeling motivated, band members Grant Nicholas and Taka Hirose immediately began work on a follow-up album. [8] The two wrote and recorded an album's worth of material across late 2019 and early 2020, with the album being largely completely outside of final audio mixing. [8] However, progress halted with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020. [8] Frustrated, Nicholas and Hirose turned to writing further material instead. [9] Early sessions written during the COVID lockdown were slow, with Nicholas suffering with a case of writer's block. [10] Eventually, his pent up frustration with both the state of the world, and his writer's block, lead to an outpouring of content, enough for two album's worth of material. [10] The material was separated into two batches; the material written second - during the COVID lockdown - was put together to make up the Torpedo album, while the earlier, pre-COVID material, was put together for a later 2023 release on a yet-to-be-titled twelfth album. [8]
Thematically, the album was influenced by the band's frustrations of the COVID-19 pandemic. This resulted in the album being described by publications as retaining their established melodic rock sound, but having a heavier and darker sound, [4] punctuated with more distorted and fuzzy guitar riffs. [11] Nicholas noted that the title track, "Torpedo", encapsulated the album well—darker verses of emotion and frustration leading into a chorus more centred around coming to a more positive conclusion from it. [9] The album opens up with the six-minute track "The Healing", which Nicholas states he wrote to resemble something out of a rock opera, was meant to be heard as a wake up call for people to come together and work towards a better future. [12] "Magpie" was described as an indie rock song about hope and optimism. [12]
The album's title and release date—Torpedo and 18 March 2022—was announced well in advance of release in August 2021. [13] A UK tour was also announced to begin shortly after the album's release. [14] The album's heavier sound has led the band to plan a heavier set list for the tour as well. [13] The album's title track was released at the time of the album's announcement as the first single. [9] [15] Songs "Wall of Silence", "Magpie", and "The Healing" were also released ahead of the album. [12]
Torpedo entered the U.K. album chart at No.5, making it the band's fifth top 5 album and tenth top 10. [16]
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "The Healing" | 6:08 |
| 2. | "Torpedo" | 3:44 |
| 3. | "When It All Breaks Down" | 4:15 |
| 4. | "Magpie" | 3:51 |
| 5. | "Hide and Seek" | 3:25 |
| 6. | "Decompress" | 3:39 |
| 7. | "Wall of Silence" | 3:32 |
| 8. | "Slow Strings" | 4:54 |
| 9. | "Born to Love You" | 3:27 |
| 10. | "Submission" | 4:33 |
| 11. | "Desperate Hour" | 4:00 |
| Total length: | 45:28 | |
Feeder
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| Chart (2022) | Peak position |
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| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [17] | 181 |
| Scottish Albums (OCC) [18] | 3 |
| UK Albums (OCC) [19] | 5 |
| UK Independent Albums (OCC) [20] | 1 |
| UK Rock & Metal Albums (OCC) [21] | 1 |
Feeder are a British rock band formed in Newport in 1994. They have released 11 studio albums, 12 compilations, four EPs and 43 singles, spending a combined total of 184 weeks on the singles and albums charts as of 2019, while accumulating 25 top 75 singles between 1997 and 2012. At the peak of their commercial success, Feeder won two Kerrang! Awards in 2001 and 2003; they were inducted into their Hall of Fame in August 2019.
Grantley Jonathan Nicholas is a Welsh musician and the lead singer and guitarist of the rock band Feeder.
Polythene is the debut studio album by Welsh rock band Feeder. It was released 19 May 1997 on the Echo Label, and then re-issued on 28 October in the same year in an Enhanced CD version, featuring their UK top 40 breakthrough single "High" and its video. The original version of the album was deleted soon after and is relatively rare due to this reason.
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"Seven Days in the Sun" is a song by Welsh rock band Feeder, released as the second single from their Echo Park album. It was released on 2 April 2001 and reached number 14 on the UK Singles Chart the same month. CD1 of the single includes "Just a Day", which was later released as a single.
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