Feast (The Creatures album)

Feast
Studio album by The Creatures
Released 15 May 1983
Recorded January 1983
Studio Hawaii
Genre
Label Polydor
Producer
The Creatures chronology
Wild Things EP
(1981)String Module Error: Match not found1981		 Feast
(1983)		 Boomerang
(1989)Boomerang1989
Siouxsie Sioux chronology
A Kiss in the Dreamhouse
Siouxsie and the Banshees
(1982) A Kiss in the Dreamhouse1982		 Feast
(1983) Feast1983		 Hyæna
Siouxsie and the Banshees
(1984) Hyæna1984
Singles from Feast
  1. "Miss the Girl"
    Released: 15 April 1983
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Record Mirror[2]

Feast is the debut studio album by British duo the Creatures, composed of Siouxsie Sioux and musician Budgie, then-members of the band Siouxsie and the Banshees. It reached No. 17 in the UK Albums Chart and the "Miss the Girl" single peaked at No. 21. With their first album, the band embraced exotica, including "waves crashing on beaches", "found-sound effects from nature" and local Hawaiian chanters.[1] Critic Ned Raggett described it as "a lush, tropical experience".[1]

Recording and music

Siouxsie and Budgie decided where to record the album by randomly placing a pin on a map of the world; the result was the U.S. state of Hawaii. Several songs are about their experiences in that region, including "Festival of Colours" and "A Strutting Rooster".

The song title "Inoaʻole" is Hawaiian for "no name". "Ice House" was inspired by an obscure television play, while single "Miss the Girl" was inspired by the J. G. Ballard novel Crash. "Dancing on Glass" was based on an Indian musical; during the studio session, the sounds of broken glass were created by Siouxsie and Budgie dancing on broken mirrors while wearing tough shoes.

Release

Feast was released by Polydor Records on 15 May 1983, two years after the Wild Things EP. It was entirely remastered in 1997 and reissued as part of the A Bestiary Of compilation.

Critical reception

Feast was released to critical acclaim. Paul Prayag of Record Mirror praised the album, awarding it a score of 4 out of 5 and writing: "Siouxsie and Budgie are wandering deeper and deeper into a jungle that looks like having no easily definable boundaries".[2] Melody Maker described Feast as "an album of filtered brilliance, fertile, sensual and erotic; an album that, in its desperate naivety, attempts to articulate that moment when the monsoon ends, when the smell and the heat conspire in a perfumed mist and life sprouts instantly, green and luxurious".[3] NME also hailed it: "The Creatures have assembled a multifarious sonic boom that is as various and kaleidoscopic as can be imagined. The humours of Sioux's frosty larynx are nakedly outlined against skins of sometimes fabulous quality. The drum sound on 'Ice House' must be one of the greatest on record".[4]

Track listing

All tracks written by Siouxsie and Budgie.

No.TitleLength
1."Morning Dawning"4:02
2."Inoaʻole"3:49
3."Ice House"2:46
4."Dancing on Glass"2:16
5."Gecko"3:50
6."Sky Train"3:15
7."Festival of Colours"3:33
8."Miss the Girl"2:35
9."A Strutting Rooster"5:04
10."Flesh"4:26

Personnel

  • Siouxsie - Vocals
  • Budgie - Drums and percussion
  • The Lamalani Hula Academy Hawaiian Chanters - Choir

References

  1. 1 2 3 Raggett, Ned. "Feast - review". AllMusic. Retrieved 10 August 2015
  2. 1 2 Prayag, Paul. Feast review. Record Mirror. 28 May 1983.
  3. ↑ Sutherland, Steve. Melody Maker. 14 May 1983
  4. ↑ Cook, Richard. "All Creatures Great And Small". NME. 14 May 1983.
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