Swim was Feeder's debut album, originally released in 1996 as a six-track mini-album. This new version features five extra tracks recorded around the same period as the original plus two videos.

The album opens with Sweet 16, the first thing that strikes me about this is that it is very different to Turn and Buck Rogers. This is more 'rock' and could easily be Placebo - this first track at least.

Stereo World still features regularly in the bands live shows, again more 'rock' than recent material from the band.

Shade is faster, louder; there is a lot more variety in this album than can normally be expected of Feeder.

Swim was the last track on the original album. This is totally different. A slow, acoustic track. "Can't help myself," is the chorus sung beautifully by Grant Nicholas over the strumming of the guitar. The best track on the album, so far.

Now we are onto the tracks that were recorded around the same period but did not feature on the original Swim album. The first of these is Elegy, which appeared as a B-side on the band's second single Tangerine early in 1997. This is slow again, a few more instruments than the last track.

World Asleep brings us back to the 'rock'. It featured on the band's debut single Stereo World in October 1996.

Forgiven is the last audio track on the album, a slow one, even slower than Swim and Elegy.

You will be pleasantly surprised if all you have heard of Feeder is the recent stuff, this is a lot more diverse. The highlight of the album has got to be the title track.