The album was released on February 18, 1997; the band commenced another tour of the United States, spanning 100 days (February to June 1997) and 24,000 miles. This tour included shows with hundreds of other bands such as Screw 32 , J Church , AFI , Still Life , Mustard…
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Album of the Year was released in June 1997 and featured yet another new guitarist, Jon Hudson, who was a former roommate of Billy Gould. The album debuted much higher than expected in some countries (for example, in Germany, the album debuted at No. 2 and stayed in the chart…
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The second studio album Oesophagus was released by B92 in June 1997, in a similar musical direction as on the previous release. The album, available on compact cassette only, recorded at the Belgrade studio Focus, on November and December 1996, featured guest appearance by Viborg Dallas vocalist Ema Vuai and…
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a later tour of the US, starting in Minneapolis in June 1997, was cancelled due to illness when McCrea was diagnosed with “fatigue and extreme exhaustion”.
The first single released from the album, ” Kowalski “, was released in May 1997, and reached number 8 on the British charts.
Feeder’s debut album, Polythene , was released in May 1997. Polythene was acclaimed by critics, including Metal Hammer and Kerrang! , who placed the album at first and sixth in their respective end-of-year lists. Some critics labelled the band “The UK’s answer to the Smashing Pumpkins “, and also drew…
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in May 1997, Diana Meltzer from Wind-up Records heard the album and decided almost immediately that she wanted to sign them to the label, which had creative issues with Baboon over the latter’s reluctance to alter their image and sound to suit the label’s demands. Meltzer later said that she…
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In May 1997, Joe D’Arco joined to replace Stewart on drums.
In May, he received a two year prison sentence suspended for three years.
May 1997 saw the release of the Rew home video, which summarizes the band’s activities from their formation.