Here’s my thing with Feeder…. I think a lot of their singles are absolutely brilliant. You can just listen to their Singles compilation from 2006 to hear for yourself. But I’ve never been able to get into their albums. Does anyone else feel this way? I’m probably just not a major Feeder fan. Though whenever they released a new single along with its video and showed it on MTV2, 8 times out of 10 the results were usually very good.

‘Idaho’ was the third single from the band’s 2012 album Generation Freakshow. Speaking for myself, it was the first new Feeder video I had seen on TV for a while so when it came on it was a bit of a surprise. Grant Nicholas’ voice now had a bit of weight to it that made it sound deeper than what I was normally used to. Most likely due to aging. The drums are booming, guitars enhanced with a crunching presence. These were some good sounds I was hearing. The video itself (as you can see above) concerns a bull-riding competition while Nicholas and bass player Taka Hirose sit at a table and watch. It’s not the most interesting thing. But, at 17 years old, I could appreciate the song.

The track sees its narrator hung up on a woman. Perhaps they were in a relationship or something. It seems as though things have ended between them… maybe she died… it’s not clear. All in all, the narrator can’t stop thinking about her and they fly to Idaho in the hope of some peace of mind. It’s another great melancholic Feeder single.