Twelve Stops and Home [Germany]

Artist	The Feeling
Format	CD
Genre	Rock
Label Name	Universal International
Producer	Andy Green
Release Date	2006 07 04
Song List	1: I Want You Now (3:47) 2: Never Be Lonely (3:31) 3: Fill My Little World (4:07) 4: Kettle's On (4:07) 5: Sewn (5:55) 6: Anyone (4:10) 7: Strange (4:21) 8: Love It When You Call (3:34) 9: Rosé (4:16) 10: Same Old Stuff (5:10) 11: Helicopter (3:18) 12: Blue Piccadilly (9:55)
Style.Categories	Pop Underground, Alternative Pop/Rock

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With its smart combination of pop/rock proficiency and brightly layered vocals, Twelve Stops and Home yielded some of England's most omnipresent tunes of 2006. Several years before this debut's release, the Feeling were little more than a ski lodge cover band, serenading Swiss snowboarders with Top 40 hits in exchange for lodging and chump change. Assimilating the tricks of the trade paid off, however, and Home's 12 tracks brim with delightfully appropriated moves: a pumping piano riff from Supertramp ("Fill My Little World"), swells of harmonies à la the Bangles ("Love It When You Call"), a zany chord progression straight out of the Beatles' druggiest days ("Helicopter"). The quintet knows its strengths and caters to them at every turn, letting frontman Dan Gillespie-Sells helm a handful of ballads (his delivery is impeccable, especially on the bittersweet British megahit "Sewn") and showcasing the Feeling's biggest asset, harmony vocals. They stack their voices like a bubblegum version of Queen, mirroring each other's sighs and crescendos, even halting the music altogether for a few measures of polyphonic a cappella. The latter move is especially effective on "Fill My Little World," where a Merseybeat-styled chorus is smartly contrasted by a sobering vocals-only outro. This brand of bold-faced classicist pop is a tricky thing to pull off -- especially in the wake of semi-jokesters the Darkness, who excelled in their craft while simultaneously making a mockery of it -- but the Feeling have the chic (and perhaps the cheek) to do so successfully. [A German edition of the album was also released.] ~ Andrew Leahey, All Music Guide