Yahoo! Music Review

Released on 18/09/08
Label: Island

Sometimes you get the music you deserve. Living, as we do, in a world of CCTV, focus groups, light entertainment, increasingly expensive gigs that have now become events for the whole family, festivals that are seen as a rite of passage to be completed before the advent of the adult world and any other neutered form of popular culture, The Feeling make perfect sense as they capture a bloodless and sanitised zeitgeist. Not that that's any kind of recommendation.

Dipping into The Beatles' songbook with this ghastly attempt at aping The Fabs' "Sgt Pepper" period, The Feeling reveal themselves as having the most inappropriate band name since Big Fun (ask your mum). Pale and anaemic, The Feeling's invitation is the antidote to all that's exciting; a series of pleasant moments designed to soundtrack your trip to the local supermarket as you consider whether the ethics of modestly-sized organic chicken breasts really do make financial sense compared to those massive ones reared in battery conditions.

    by Julian Marszalek