The Feeling - Twelve Stops & Home
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Free Music Review: Actually 13 Stops...
Hit: 5 Stars
... and the "hidden" track, "Miss You", is the best thing I've heard in ages. I absolutely dare you not to be moved to tears listening to this deceptively simple piece of piano-driven pop.Free Music Review: I'm "Feeling" it!
Hit: 5 Stars
Great album. Very catchy melodies, fun to sing along with, lots of musical surprises. Makes listening to music fun!Free Music Review: A+ for the Feeling
Hit: 5 Stars
These guys are great! I saw them on Abbey Road on tv and had to buy the cd. Being a wine drinker, I love "Rose'"!Free Music Review: feel good music
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a great way to get your British fix for the day!! Love the accents in their songs!Free Music Review: With 12 Stops, The Feeling Hits Home - Somewhat Effortlessly.....
Hit: 4 Stars
As an unapologetic Anglophile, I too watched snippets of the Concert for Diana two years ago and was greeted by a warm wave of melodic, bright and joyous music. In addition to being just leveled by Take That's "Patience" and at least enticed by Lily Allen, there was this unassuming combo that went by a very apt name, The Feeling. While I couldn't determine what song it was that intrigued me, the sound itself was quite compelling and I filed the experience away for future investigation. I finally found my way back to the group after hearing fellow stars Keane's song "A Bad Dream" last evening on Scrubs, but as serendipity would have it, the first YouTube video I checked out was "Sewn". I had been terribly ill the previous 3 days and, as happens so much, music helped me to feel just a bit better. Clicking on the YT play button, I was met by a deceivingly simple acoustic guitar line, then completely devastated by the kind of vocal melody seldom heard on American radio since the days of Bread or America. Like those notorious soft rockers, the 'NA-na, NA-na-na-na' hook of "Sewn" may seem inane to the sophisticates and no, most of his lyrics won't render him a Nobel laureate, but lead vocalist Dan Gillespie Sells' key changes are undeniably gorgeous and affecting. While 'Danny Boy' (who resembles nothing so much as a cross between Charlie Sheen, Tobey Maguire and Ewan MacGregor) hasn't ever made any attempt to hide his sexual orientation, what is actually an exhortative call-and-response with himself as protagonist renders "Sewn" applicable to either a female or male object of affection despite the somewhat eyebrow-raising phrase 'shake that [...]' (still not nearly as shocking as it might once have been in this context and age of ambiguity, though). Gillespie Sells and the band breaks down and brings home "Sewn" with a slightly heavier, slowly building crescendo very reminiscent of "I Should've Known" by Aimee Mann in its plaintive vocal improvisation. It's worth noting that the single version of "Sewn" inexplicably forsakes an entire 3rd verse and chorus, leaving the sense of it being unfinished.....
While Dan's hope was indeed to evoke a Seventies harmonic vibe (mission accomplished and then some more often than not on this record) as with Keane, The Feeling owes a lot to Scotsmen Fran Healy and Travis, really the first British ensemble to revisit such a softer sound. Their 2 albums The Man Who and The Invisible Band remain highly original, underrated masterpieces, but such songs as "Fill My Little World" and "Never Be Lonely" (the video for which displays an impressive appreciation of visual and audio dynamics alike, evoking Yes' "Owner Of A Lonely Heart", Badfinger and Queen in 2 interspersed, sonically progressive vignettes) on Twelve Stops.....reveal that The Feeling are arguably capable of producing their own touchstone works.
There is, however, a reason why I only assigned the record 4 stars and, while I won't be receiving it for a few days yet so any review here perhaps relies too much upon the strength of "Sewn", New Wavy numbers such as " I Love It When You Call" (likely a product of their penchant for performing "Video Killed The Radio Star") left me underwhelmed. I haven't heard any of the band's sophomore offering Join With Us either so I can't comment on how The Feeling might have subsequently changed, but on their Wiki page, there's a list of other unlikely covers this lot has done in the past, sometimes under alternate names. A sampling: "Lose Yourself" by Eminem (!!!) and, believe it or not, "Reign In Blood" by SLAYER (!!!!!!!) So I can say with some confidence that The Feeling will surprise listeners as their career unfolds.....