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Album Details

• Artist: The Feeling
• EP:
Four Stops And Home Ep
• Label: Interscope Records
• Year of Release: 2006
• ME Rating:
• Reviewed by: kev_stev on 2007-08-18

The Feeling's Four Stops and Home reveals the band's playful pop sensibilities, writing love songs sung over the piano and acoustic guitar, sometimes calling on the accompaniment of backing female vocals.  Opening track "Sewn" is the most ambitious track on the EP; it has the basic elements of pop music, a catchy chorus and a lot of sing-along-esque "na na na na's," but it also has a freshness to it, a vitality sprung by The Feeling's youthful earnestness that kicks off the EP in high gear.  Breaking into a full-fledged crescendo over the chorus of female voices singing in the background, "Sewn" winds down after 6 minutes off brilliant pop music.  The next track, "Helicopter," however, is not as endearing; its structure is more systematic, its sound more flat--all in all, its not an impressive follow up to "Sewn," which set up high expectations for its predecessor.  The third of the four tracks on the EP, excluding the fifth song, which is the music video for “Sewn,” is a piano-driven, pop ballad that gracefully plays on almost like a music box until an electric guitar resounds at the latter part of the song.  “All You Need to Do,” the final song on the EP, keeps the pace set by the prior song: a slow, almost melancholic song carried by piano, though it does add a conversational chanting that sounds very influenced by Pink Floyd’s The Wall.  Overall, The Feeling’s EP is not a bad start—it reveals, in glimpses and in their stand out track, “Sewn,” the band’s amazing potential to create original, moody, and riveting pop music—however, it also shows that there is much work needed to be done before the band can make an album full of successful tracks.  I’d keep an eye on these guys though; I think they’ll be more than just a one hit wonder band.

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