How a Career Reset Led to Feed Me's New EP, a Creative Reawakening

Feed Me’s first EP in over six years sees the influential producer do what he does greatest: remodel his music into one thing completely new whereas staying true to his sound.

Out now through Ophelia Data, his gorgeous Feed Me From The Clouds challenge paints a vivid soundscape wealthy with the complexities of his typical manufacturing mastery. All through every of its 4 tracks, Feed Me traverses via deeply nuanced electro and progressive home, transporting us to the darkish and brooding dancefloors he has lengthy cultivated.

Feed Me From The Clouds is nothing wanting a masterstroke. Feed Me expertly weaves a spellbinding latticework of genres and sounds, opening the EP with the room-filling observe “Whole.” The virtuosic Brit turns issues round on the following track “Love Management,” the place a crooning vocal pattern floats atop his ethereal manufacturing.

We caught up with Feed Me to debate his new EP and what lies forward for the famend producer.

EDM.com: What impressed Feed Me From The Clouds?

Feed Me: Eager to make the sound I need to hear principally, particularly post-Covid. The power, buildings; I like making an attempt to do a set that goes via totally different environments whereas staying hopeful, energetic and optimistic. Feed Me has change into buoyant and is floating as much as accumulate recommendation and magic glyphs from the cloud god.

EDM.com: Since your final EP, Feed Me’s Existential Disaster, you have launched two albums. What made you need to return to shorter-form releases?

Feed Me: Excessive Avenue Creeps was very a lot the product of getting loads of materials directly from periods far and wide, and corralling all of it collectively into one thing that instructed a narrative. Feed Me was much more private, like loads of artists for me it was a lockdown story and really a lot an insular expertise, shopping for esoteric tools, utilizing experimental or classic strategies.

There’s one thing fairly large feeling about doing albums although, and with increasingly new materials and concepts build up I wished to get again to being extra episodic. So this is the primary results of that.

EDM.com: Once we final spoke, we mentioned how 2021’s self-titled Feed Me album was a reset on your challenge. What’s modified for you musically since?

Feed Me: Connecting with crowds once more, and mixing the teachings of that lockdown-detached interval of creativity with music for a social surroundings. It has been a case of discovering that time between completely indulgent materials and tracks I can do extra with in a stay setting, that translate in a membership or a loop.

EDM.com: Along with musical modifications, what else has modified for Feed Me since your reset?

Feed Me: I’ve taken much more on personally, but in addition change into a extra environment friendly and fewer chaotic particular person on the whole, which might be excellent news for everybody round me. I am so lucky to get to do that, I really feel fairly related to all of it these days. I feel I’ve simply change into more and more grateful and energized by all of it.

EDM.com: Your different initiatives, SPOR and seventh sew, have been fairly busy these days. What extra do you’ve deliberate on your different aliases right now?

Feed Me: Launching Seventh Sew has been an enormous catharsis, and I’ve a terrific crew serving to with the logistics. Feed Me is my character, a little bit of a masks for mischief, however Seventh Sew is my diary. I’ve all the time wanted the 2 points to keep up, however making it public feels totally different. I am making an attempt to get a Spor report mastered additionally.

EDM.com: What can followers anticipate from Feed Me within the close to future?

Feed Me: Some collaborations appear to be coming collectively. Additionally I’ve an EP on Sotto Voce, and one thing else with Ophelia. I did not see the purpose in working with a label that is new to me until it was a case of actually being concerned and feeling related with what they do. I respect Ophelia and Jeff [Seven Lions] and their artists and crew loads, it is inspiring to get that type of contact and actually motivating. I purchased a extremely outdated automobile to fiddle with additionally so if I am going lacking one thing went improper.

Hearken to Feed Me From The Clouds on streaming platforms right here.