Trosa Music

Feeder = Renegades

I love it when bands, or band members do side projects. It gives them license to try something completely different and experiment a little when things get too stale. Thom Yorke of Radiohead has a couple of side projects as does Jack White of the White Stripes. The sounds they create with their side projects are quite different and are a breath of fresh air once in a while.

Feeder, one of my all time favourite bands, have recently created a side project named Renegades. Feeder, in recent times, have not been creating their best music, which I believe is still contained in the albums ’Yesterday Went Too Soon’and ’Echo Park’. Whilst they are still capable of rocky anthems, there were a couple in the latest album, ’Silent Cry’, they are too few and far between.

There is a sense that Grant (Vocals and Guitar) and Taka (Backing Vocals and Bass Guitar) have become lost as Feeder and needed to concentrate their efforts on something completely different for a little while, to regain their love for the industry. In fact, Renegades just went on a small tour of England doing small, intimate gigs to try and get a sense of what it was like back in the day when they had just started out.

The Renegades sound is heavier than the Feeder sound we are used to today and that is, in my opinion, better. I always thought that Grant was better at writing rock tracks to nod your head to than emotional ballads. With the pressure off and the chance to play some new tracks at their gigs, hopefully Grant and Taka will regain a passion for their music that has arguably been missing in recent times.

I hope that their small stint as Renegades has them coming back as Feeder better than ever before.
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