Yahoo! Music Review

Released on 30/06/08
Label: Island

To paraphrase Charlie Brooker at his most evil, The Feeling aren't just their own worst enemies, they're the commandants in their own death camps. As anyone whose spent time exploring their wonderful two albums will know, Dan Gillespie Sells is a songwriter of rare sincerity and tenderness, as well as blessed with an uncanny ear for a perfect pop melody. But his weakness for nudge nudge cheesiness - whether deliberately inserting a horrid sax solo or covering Buggles live - allows his many critics to dismiss him as a cynic or an ironist.

"Turn It Up" won't change the critics' minds, with its knowing mix of brash Brian May guitars and plinky plonk Abba pianos. In fact, it's perhaps the least impressive of their eight singles thus far. Yes, it's catchy and giddy good fun (this is The Feeling, after all, not Joy Division), but it breezes along without any of the melancholy or unexpected detours of the band at their finest. Easy to sing along to but just as easy to forget.

    by Jaime Gill