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14 September 2009 10:00 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »

Some bands evaporate never to be heard from again, others sink into the groundwater, nurturing what comes later. The Feelies fall into the latter camp. The jangly fuzz and off-kilter beats the New Jersey group pioneered starting with 1980’s Crazy Rhythms long ago became part of many aspiring bands’ education, starting with a young R.E.M. Its four-album catalog has fallen in and out of print over the years, often making it easier to hear the Feelies’ influence than to hear the band itself. That trend happily gets reversed with the re-release of Crazy Rhythms and its long-in-the-making »

8 September 2009 6:00 AM, PDT | Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news »

Crazy Rhythms - 96/100The Good Earth - 82/100

City Mouse, Country Mouse: Hoboken’s Finest re-release their first two albums, recorded six years and stylistic worlds apart 

Three decades after zooming down New Jersey’s Route 3, through the Lincoln Tunnel and into the cold, bright glare of the City, what suburban über-nerds The Feelies accomplished on their debut reads simply enough on paper: the Velvets’ "Sister Ray" played with the complexity of Television’s Marquee Moon. But if it had only amounted to that, 1980’s Crazy Rhythms would’ve been nothing more than an interesting post-punk period piece, rather than the indie-rock talisman it ultimately was for groups such as R.E.M., Weezer (check out the cover art similarity between Crazy Rhythms and The Blue Album), Sebadoh and Yo La Tengo. Frontmen Glenn Mercer and Bill Million—if that’s what you can really call these reluctant anti-heroes—were the ultimate white punks on dope, »

2 articles from 2009