The Feelies: Jangly Pop Slowed Down and Weepy
Understanding what happened to New Jersey cum New York group the Feelies necessitates a firm understanding of its first album, Crazy Rhythms.
As implicit in its title as it might be, the Feelies were able to solder together punk’s aggression, American music’s sense of rhythm snatched from the Velvet Underground and pretty much any sixties’ rock act and the repetitive – yet simple and alluring – compositions of Rhys Chatham. This group, though, isn’t some take on no wave. And while the Feelies would ebb and flow in and out of musical oddities over the twenty years following its first album, issued in 1980, there were always hints at where the band could have gone.
