In the space of a year, Feeder have gone from being the loveable British rock-rogues who sold a respectable number of records by lashing out fun, feelgood, energetic songs to That Band Whose Drummer Committed Suicide.

In response, Comfort In Sound, Feeder’s fourth studio album, marks a watershed in their career. With the help of ex-Skunk Anansie tub-thumper Mark Richardson, Grant Nicholas and Taka Hirose have succeeded in producing their finest record to date. Gone is the one-dimensional in-yer-face brashness, replaced instead with a more reflective, mature and altogether well-rounded structure suggesting that, musically, they have finally grown into their skin (take, for example, opening ballad ‘Just The Way I’m Feeling’ or current single ‘Come Back Around’).

Comfort In Sound is the record Feeder needed to make: full throttle and triumphant, screaming rock in capital letters. Good luck to ’em.