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Echo Park - Grant Nicholas Talks To Rock Sound
Yesterday Went Too Soon - Review (Taken From www.hiponline.com)

Grant Nicholas on Echo Park - Taken From Rock Sound March 2001

Title: Echo Park
We had a problem with the name at first because of our label name (Echo), but it just sounded really cool - it's a place outside LA. It's a very different side to the area, it's a bit like Camden Market, and I just thought about it, really liked it and it stuck.

Standing On The Edge
I was messing around with a keyboard and I actually wrote that with a cheesy drum machine! It started off quite electronic and I wanted to mix it with really heavy guitars. It's called that because that was how I felt at the time.

Buck Rogers
Originally I had a call from Gil Norton's Management company (the producer of Echo Park) and he was working with a band and they were short of a few songs and asked me if I would be interested in writing for this band, so I started writing this stuff and one of them was Buck Rogers. I had the riff ages ago and when I finished it I thought, we should hang on to this. There's a reason for the opening line - it's to do with someone else - it's to do with a TV advert, but that's all I'm saying! Lyrically it's quite down though.

Piece By Piece
This started from a demo I did a long time ago and I was trying to get something with a hip-hop groove and then put the song on top. It's another relationship thing about trying to sort something out and being stuck in the studio and not being able to sort something out, everything was a bit pear shaped at that point.

Seven Days In The Sun
It's a rock song but it has humour in it, but it's not a novelty song. It's a typical holiday romance song that's been done a million times before.

Can't Rewind
That song really sums up where we are as a band and was written in LA. It's a song about trying to find something positive again. I wanted a Tom Petty style vocal on it, but at the same time kepping it rocky too.

Turn
Probably one of my favourite songs on the album, and it's basically about being away and missing people and things at home.

Choke
I wanted to do something with the quirkiness of P J Harvey but with a rocking big riff, and something almost Gary Numan-esque. It's probably going to be a song for the die-hard Feeder fan.

Oxygen
A song I wrote on acoustic guitar on a day when Gil went home, it was a really enjoyable song to do, it's quite dark

Tell All Your Friends
It was written on a keyboard and was a real fun and happy song to write. I was going for a really early Police sound, but it had a real power to it too, almost like a Nirvana vibe.

Under The Weather (In a gig he sayed "This ones called Nurofen, but they might stop us using that name, so you should always know it as Nurofen!")
It's basically a song about a hangover that I wrote at the same time as Buck Rogers.

Satellite News
It's a dreamers song, dreaming about escape and the future. It's my Space Odyssey of the album! It could have been this big 10 minute epic but we fought against that.

Bug
We didn't want to end the album with a typical ballard, and it's a completely live take. We wanted it just to be a noise, with the power of early Black Sabbath but a bit more trippy. It was a complete onslaught and the most rock 'n' roll track of the album.

Yesterday Went Too Soon - Review (Taken From www.hiponline.com)

Feeder, who are best known for getting us "High", have done a great job of outdoing themselves. Their latest release, Yesterday Went Too Soon, takes your heart and mind on a ride through many lows and highs.

The album starts off with the quick, heavy verses of "Anaesthetic". While you are churned about in the verses, you'll be set back down during the chorus. The transitions are smooth and the pure rock is smoother. "Insomnia" is the first single, but doesn't quite give you a feel for what Feeder really has to bring. The chorus is a little weak, but the verse to bridge is very sweet.

The beautifully maligned chorus of "Pictures of Perfect Youth" proves Feeder has grown out of the misguided shells of their past. The title track, "Yesterday Went Too Soon", builds and builds into a Radiohead-like elegance I didn't think these guys had in them. And after all of that drama, they bring one the album's best track, "Waiting For Changes". This track is pure distorted bliss; "Radioman" is just as blissful for a million different reasons.

In the end, Feeder has such a tide of great tracks that you can't absorb it, even after a dozen or so listens. Just when you think you can relax they hit you with something like the punky "Evergreen", and continue on right to the end when they drop perhaps their most perfect display of magic, "Paper Faces". You continue to wonder what they are up to when you find they even stick a hidden track on the end. It seems they just couldn't stop the creative flow. Feeder is bad. Not bad meaning bad, but bad meaning good.