"Come Back Around" is the first single released from Welsh

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band Feeder's fourth studio album, ''

Comfort in Sound ''Comfort in Sound'' is the fourth studio album by Welsh rock band Feeder, released on 21 October 2002 and also the first to be released by the band after the suicide of drummer Jon Lee earlier in the year. The album was recorded at RAK Studio ...

'' (2002). It was their first release after drummer Jon Lee's death earlier in the year and reached number 14 on the

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, becoming the band's 10th top-40 hit in the process. It also reached number 45 in Ireland. The promo video features four female drummers as a tribute to Jon Lee. Feeder also have a B-side with the same name which was released two years later on their B-sides album, "

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", in 2004.

Music video

With "Come Back Around" being Feeder's first single after Jon's death, the band wanted to make it a tribute to him. Frontman

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knew that Jon would like the idea of a series of women playing drums together, and so a group of female drummers appeared in the video, all playing at the same time with Grant Nicholas and

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both in their usual band roles, facing towards the drummers. To keep the video low-key, it was also filmed in black and white. Effects in the video include Grant playing his guitar in a windmill motion for a few seconds, and Taka jumping off an equipment box with the landing done in

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. Jon often complained that there were no girls in their videos. The drumming was shot in slow motion in order to make it almost perfect with each of the four drummers. The video visually shows the message that no matter how many drummers they had, and no matter how each beat was hit in time, they would never be the same as Jon. A screen-grab from the video, showing Grant jumping in the air, appears as the cover for the later-released Singles compilation album.

Reception

"Come Back Around" charted at number 14 on the

and number 45 on the

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. The track appeared at number 103 on XFM's all-time list "The X-List" in 2003, being very popular with comedians

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during their time at the station and alongside its video was number 35 on

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's top 100 videos of 2002. The track gained a lot of critical success upon release, with Kerrang! naming it their "Single of the Week". It is played very regularly at Feeder concerts and festival appearances.

Track listings

UK CD1 # "Come Back Around" – 3:12 # "Feel It Again" – 3:53 # "Bullet" – 2:53 UK CD2 # "Come Back Around" – 3:12 # "Opaque" – 3:56 # "Come Back Around" (acoustic session) – 3:20 # "Come Back Around" (video) UK DVD single # "Come Back Around" (video) # "Come Back Around—Lyric Screen" (audio) – 3:12 # "Opaque—Photo Gallery" (audio) – 3:56 # "Suffocate" (video) – 0:30 # "High" (video) – 0:30 # "Tangerine" (video) – 0:30 # "Stereo World" (video) – 0:30

Charts

Release history

References

{{Authority control Feeder songs 2002 singles 2002 songs Black-and-white music videos The Echo Label singles Song recordings produced by Gil Norton Songs written by Grant Nicholas UK Independent Singles Chart number-one singles Universal Records singles