The South London group capture the destructiveness of human instinct in this visceral duet. Photo: Harriet Langford | Words: Lloyd Bolton 'Feed Me', the new single from Ex-Giant, is a gluttonous duet, viscerally portraying its subject with mel…  | By lloydbolton52 on August 30, 2024 | The South London group capture the destructiveness of human instinct in this visceral duet.  Photo: Harriet Langford | Words: Lloyd Bolton 'Feed Me', the new single from Ex-Giant, is a gluttonous duet, viscerally portraying its subject with melodramatic excess. The sentiment sits well with a band that has always tended towards a gothic musical grandeur befitting its lineup of six. Since their debut EP 'Sprocketland', the band have undergone an adaptation informed by lineup changes, adding to their ranks the powerful vocals of Tati Gutteridge of Bishopskin and Suzie Creevey. The Bishopskin connection is felt in the earthy density of the music, but on this track it is Creevey's contribution that most powerfully defines the song. Creevey opens the duet with a powerful driving vocal, which comes to play off with the part of Joel Paul, whose affectless intensity comes across all the more strongly in this context. As it unfurls, the whole song seems to embrace the ugly passion of the human spirit, centring on its insatiate, self-destructive greed with two voices that wonkily juxtapose each other. The result is breathlessly intense, matching the raucous ferocity of the line, "I'll tear the meat off of you," which is brilliantly tossed between the two singers. All the while, a sax countermelody adds a sleazy skin to the piece, while its ordered rhythm again contrasts and thereby intensifies the unrestrained energy of each of the vocals. | | | |
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