The Feeling: 'Without You'

The Feeling seem to revel in antagonising music critics who find their brand of '70s pop revivalism a right pain in the rear. Rather than "going nu-rave", roping in Mark Ronson or pretending to be the Arctic Monkeys, Dan Gillespie Sells and co. came out with their soft rock guns blazing on sophomore album Join With Us. It's a valiant enough purpose in principle, but in practice, well, it's pretty irritating.

New single 'Without You' finds Gillespie Sell reminiscing about "London town" over a wimpy, meandering melody and crooning sickly, cheesy lyrics about some mysteriously absent lover - fingers crossed the poor sod won't have to hear this in person! The lack of irony within The Feeling's sugary pop is refreshing and honorable, but too often the results are like this: unpalatable, dull dross.


> Click here for our review of The Feeling's Join With Us album