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''Pushing the Senses'' is the fifth album by the British rock band Feeder. It was released on Echo, Liberation Music and PIAS on 31 January 2005 in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Europe, while being released on Pony Canyon in Japan on 10 February 2005. Despite mixed reviews, the album was a commercial success, in which it was a top five album in Feeder's native United Kingdom, and its lead single "Tumble and Fall" was a top five single. This made the album Feeder's most successful in terms of peak chart position, but did not experience the same chart longetivity as presuccessor ''Comfort in Sound'', which spent 36 weeks on the UK top 75 chart in comparison to the 15 weeks spent by ''Pushing the Senses''. The album represented a similar musical style as seen on 2002's ''Comfort in Sound'', and featured more songs written on a piano and also had, as described by frontman Grant Nicholas, more of an "organic" sound than that of the latter. Inspirations were that of John Lennon within some of the songwriting. Most critics criticised the band's approach to what was described as Keane and Coldplay style music, and "departing" from their trademark sound heard on their first three albums, while ''Q'' magazine stated that the album could "finally establish Feeder as major league players". ==Recording and production== ''Pushing the Senses'' contains music in the same rock styles featured on Feeder's 2002 album ''Comfort in Sound'', but it focuses more on pianos, rather than a string orchestra.〔. feederweb.com. February 2005. Retrieved 7 March 2008.〕 Only "Pain on Pain" on the album mainly used strings, including samples from a mellotron.〔("Grant Nicholas about Pushing The Senses (Part 1)" ). toazted.com. December 2004. Retrieved 7 March 2008.〕 Frontman Grant Nicholas said he did not think the album needed them.〔 He also called the album the band's "Recovery album" as he felt he was more at ease writing the songs than he was with ''Comfort in Sound'', after the loss of their drummer Jon Lee,〔("International songwriters - Grant Nicholas" ). Mushroom Music Publishing. Retrieved 7 January 2011.〕 alongside stating that he was inspired by artists such as John Lennon within the piano playing and writing the songs.〔 Grant told ''Kerrang!'' in May 2004, "I've done some recording on my own in a little studio up by where I live in North London. I demo the album in its full form before the rest of the band play on it. It's difficult to know at this stage what it will turn out like, but so far its slightly more mature sounding". Grant later added "Each album is a journey and a reflection of the past, there is some stuff that touches on what has happened, but there are songs about love, songs of loss and songs about the future. I don't want to give too much away but there's one track called "Bitter Glass". Its quite dark but uplifting too. It's about pulling yourself out of a big hole".〔''Kerrang!'', issue 1005. "'I'VE GOT A GOOD FEELING ABOUT THIS!' Feeder frontman gets busy in the studio". Emap Limited〕 Feeder and Gil Norton recorded the bulk of ''Pushing the Senses'' in 2004 at Abbey Road Studios, London, England.〔''Pushing the Senses'' (CD liner notes). Echo. January 2005.〕 Ken Nelson recorded "Frequency" in Liverpool with the band, as Grant felt he could capture the organic sound.〔 Grant recorded the piano first with the rest of the track built around it.〔 Grant said the album as a whole does have a retro sound to it, but the band did not want it to "sound too retro".〔 The title track was one of the first songs Grant wrote for the album in 2003, and was at first written on a piano before being translated to guitar,〔〔 and also said that he could have easily recorded the song with strings.〔 "Tumble and Fall", which became the album's first single, saw Grant describe the recording process as "old fashioned", with bass player Taka Hirose saying that the band should include it on the album. The song was recorded with the vocal and an acoustic guitar at first, and then the other parts of the music built around it.〔〔 In an interview with the band's official website Feederweb, Grant explained that "Feeling a Moment", was played back with the intro playing backwards, in which he explained: "This was one of the first songs written for the album. I actually started recording that song in the studio on my own at the Crypt. The song was written at home, as soon as I had that intro, the vocal “woo who” bit—what ever you want to call it—that was a really important hook for the song."〔 In a DVD packaged with limited quantities of the album, Grant is seen playing a piano during the recording sessions, and once said that "() don't rate himself as a piano player".〔 He also stated that Feeder are a band, and even though he writes all the songs, he makes sure drummer Mark Richardson and bass player Taka Hirose have their say in the process of their creation.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pushing the Senses」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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