Feeder release new double A-side single ‘Playing With Fire’ / ‘ELF’ and announce double album ‘Black / Red’
Feeder | Photo credit: Steve Gullick
Feeder are today announcing a new double album Black / Red for release on 5th April 2024 on Big Teeth Music via Townsend Music / Absolute Label Services. Black / Red completes a trilogy of albums joined to 2022’s UK Top 5 album Torpedo. New double A-side single ‘Playing With Fire’ / ‘ELF’ / is out now.
‘ELF’, which lead singer and guitarist Grant Nicholas describes as “a call to arms”, and ‘Playing With Fire’s “roller coaster ride of self-discovery”, reaffirm the band’s knack for sticky melodies and livewire riffs. Songs across Black / Red carry with them the same sense of wide-open space, freedom and possibility, aligned with an optimistic energy that first lit the fuse for Torpedo. Cohesive and connected rather than a concept, Black / Red is a continuation of Torpedo’s conversation but at the same time a full stop on a prolific songwriting period that encapsulates a very specific moment in time for the band. Feeder’s first ever double album became the perfect way for them to not only realise what these songs mean together in the present day, but also to show the breadth of a sound they’ve honed across the decades, taking in muscular riffs, sky-scraping melodies and heartfelt sentiment.
Vocalist, guitarist and writer Grant Nicholas expands on the new album:
“I really wanted the album to be split in two parts for the listener, CD1 and CD2, black and red rather than be one long player, almost like a musical production with an interval. Making it was a very creative time for me as a writer and a real labour of love. Making the Black / Red album for me personally was a musical pilgrimage and I feel the end result is undeniable Feeder.”
Black / Red is released on 5th April 2024 and will be available on digital, CD and vinyl. Pre-order here
Listen to ‘Playing With Fire’ / ‘ELF’ here and watch the visualiser for ‘ELF’ here
Feeder will also be touring the album through the UK in 2024. Full dates below. Tickets are available now with pre-orders of the album here and go on general sale from this Friday 27th October.
Feeder UK tour dates 2024
02 March - Junction, Cambridge, UK
03 March - De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, UK
05 March - Guildhall, Portsmouth, UK
06 March - The Foundry, Torquay, UK
08 March - O2 Academy, Bristol, UK
09 March - Great Hall, Cardiff, UK
11 March - O2 Academy, Oxford, UK
14 March - Engine Shed, Lincoln, UK
16 March - O2 Institute, Birmingham, UK
17 March - O2 Academy, Liverpool, UK
19 March - Barbican, York, UK
20 March - Albert Hall, Manchester, UK
22 March - Boiler Shop, Newcastle, UK
23 March - Barrowland, Glasgow, UK
25 March - Rock City, Nottingham, UK
26 March - Leadmill, Sheffield, UK
28 March - Roundhouse, London, UK
Feeder – Black / Red album track listing:
Black (Disc 1)
1. Droids
2. ELF
3. Playing With Fire
4. Vultures
5. Sahara
6. Hey You
7. The Knock
8. Perfume
9. AI.m^n
Red (Disc 2)
1. Sleeping Dogs Lie
2. Scream
3. Submarine
4. Lost In The Wilderness
5. Memory Loss
6. Unconditional
7. Here Comes The Hurricane
8. Soldiers
9. Ghosts On Parade
