Thank you for the previews! I love The Feelies and cannot wait for this newest release... I actually was lucky enough to see them a couple years ago at 9:30 club and they were phenomenal. They played extended rather noisy versions of lots of their songs, I remember a great version of The Boy With the Perpetual Nervousness. There's something about their music that gives it that something special, it's got a relatively typical college/alternative rock sound to it up front, but there's a skittish, nervous undertone in a lot of their songs that really sets them apart to me. And it often sounds like a burst of distortion will tear the music into something like The Wipers or Pixies, but it stays buried in the music. I loved that show because it absolutely came out, and I was one of the youngest people in attendance... most of the audience was probably late 30s to early 50s. But the thing I noticed was, I went to a Dinosaur Jr concert a bit later that had a crowd much more representative of my age group, early 20s, and the crowd at The Feelies must have been 10 times as into the music! Good stuff all around.
And thanks for the European Indie Pop, Sophie Hunger sounds right up my alley. I must admit though, I don't get jj at all. Despite the fact that it really seems like it should be something I would enjoy, I can't get into them.
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