- Label
- MCA Music
- Release date
- 18th February 2008
- Genre
- Pop/rock
- Buy this album
- Order CD
Pop rock magpies steal from everywhere to make exuberantly accessible album
London five-piece The Feeling’s debut album – Twelve Stops And Home – was embraced by many indie kids and alternative radio stations as the pop album it was cool to like – happy songs, wistful lyrics, nice hooks. In the time since their first and second albums, we’ve seen something of a pop renaissance from the likes of The Ark, Ghosts, Mika, et al – and as such, Join With Us reflects the public’s embrace of multi-faceted pop songwriting by borrowing from a very rich variety of sources.
Opening track (and lead single) I Thought It Was Over canters astonishingly from ABBA to the Ark, from Martha And The Vandellas to Springsteen, and a number of other unlikely places. Elsewhere on the album, Without You is a The Thrills-esque Stateside lovelorn ballad; I Did It For Everyone an interesting, harmonic stomp with an eye on disco production and big, retro jangly guitars; the title track is a superb journey into the Scandinavian-style pop purveyed by Andreas Jonsson, Håkan Hellström, et al. The sheer scale of the production sometimes leads it over into burlesque, cabaret-esque territory, but if you can tolerate that, there is plenty of joy to be found here.
More to try: The Ark: Prayer For The Weekend Supergrass: I Should Coco Håkan Hellström: Det är så jag sager det Ghosts: The World Is Outside
