Another JIP New Music Showcase

Emotionally, instinctively, we know that we are supposed to hate bands like this: A group of young guys wearing sloppy clothes (chosen by image consultants pret-a-porter in Milan), and stubbly beards and tousled hair (fixed that way by $400 an hour stylists).

But as you get older, you realize that everybody from Elvis onwards has kept up appearances, and you stop looking and just listen.

So here we have "The Feeling" (band site (turn down your volume), wikipedia site), a British group which isn't quite a boy band because they do play their own instruments (and I'm assuming they write their own music). But they are definitely pop. Very pop, and very 70's... but well done and polished.

Here is their video, "Never Be Lonely." I personally like the song "Love It When You Call", but they don't have a video for it out yet (although there is a audio-only version of it on YouTube here).