★★★★★
Since Haledon, N.J.'s most famous export put out Crazy Rhythms in 1980, a new generation of bands has taken apart their anxious post-punk puzzle and reshaped it to the point of caricature. The Feelies' latest album in 20 years certainly puts the punch line in the title, not to mention the opening track: "Is it too late to do it again?" There's a sense the 21st century Feelies aren't in it for the nostalgia, but rather to add another round to the quintet's tab...
- www.austinchronicle.com
2011-06-27
★★★★★
Reunion records can be a huge let down. Sure it's fun to see a band get together and play all their old hits, but the minute you hear those famous last words "Here's a new song we've been working on", most of us tune out. So when those new songs they've been working on get maid into an actual album, we're definitely wary...
- aquariusrecords.org
2011-05-09
★★★★★
What's not to be excited about a new Feelies album? The Feelies' first two albums, Crazy Rhythms and The Good Earth (released for the first time on CD a couple of years ago) are justifiably listed in the most significant releases of the post-punk era. Having been enticed back into live performance - including a to-die-for appearance at All Tomorrow's Parties in New York - The Feelies have now returned to the record fray with a new album, Here Before...
- www.beat.com.au
2011-05-04
★★★★★
What's not to be excited about a new Feelies album? The Feelies' first two albums, 'Crazy Rhythms' and 'The Good Earth' (released for the first time on CD a couple of years ago) are justifiably listed in the most significant releases of the post-punk era. Having been enticed back into live performance - including a to-die-for appearance at All Tomorrow's Parties in New York - The Feelies have now returned to the record fray with a new album, Here Before...
- www.beat.com.au
2011-05-04
★★★★★
The Feelies are famous for moving at their own, ultra-deliberate pace in a career that has yielded a mere four studio albums since the late '70s, and none since 1991. So it's appropriate that the New Jersey quintet begins album No. 5, "Here Before" (Bar/None), with a knowing wink. "Is it too late to do it again...
- leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com
2011-04-25
★★★★★
"Is it too late/To do it again?..." Pretend for a moment that you were once deemed "innovative," that your sporadic output over the last thirty years has been reintroduced to a new breed of indie rock fan raised on the Napster principle and that that you're bringing something new into the post-alt rock, post-rock, post-post-punk, post-garage revivalist, lo-fi, chillwave, Pitchfork BNM musical climate. Do you try and challenge this new audience, or do you simply prove that you "still got it...
- www.noripcord.com
2011-04-25
★★★★★
Whenever a groundbreaking post-punk band reforms to release new material, there's the inevitable tendency to compare it to their earliest, trailblazing efforts. In the best-case scenario-- say, Mission of Burma or Wire-- we may marvel that artists in their fifties muster the same intensity as their twentysomething selves. But for the recently reunited Feelies, such considerations don't apply...
- pitchfork.com
2011-04-24
★★★★★
The Feelies Here Before (Bar/None, 2011) "Is it too late to do it again Or should we wait another 10? Nobody knows, everyone cares Everyone's askin' for answers to prayers..." So begins the brisk "Nobody Knows", the opening song of the unexpected Feelies "comeback" record Here Before that finds singer/guitarist Glenn Mercer confirming an acute awareness of his band's growing legend (not to mention their erratic work ethic)...
- www.crawdaddy.com
2011-04-18
★★★★★
There's a lot of suspense surrounding the release of the Feelies' first studio album in two decades, at least among the half-dozen Feelies fans that have been breathlessly awaiting it. So, is it as good as Crazy Rhythms or your other favourite Feelies album? No, but it's okay...
- www.exclaim.ca
2011-04-18
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