The Feelies to release In Between, their first new album in six years

The Feelies to release In Between, their first new album in six years
Photo: Doug Seymour

I’m just gonna let this sink in: New Jersey’s nervous, brainy, tense, and taut new-wavers The Feelies have been a band… since 1976. That’s 40 years, kids. And after that much time together (even barring that little 17-year hiatus they went on for the 1990s and most of the 2000s), you don’t just drop a new album like it ain’t NOTHIN. Or wait… actually, maybe that’s exactly what you do?

Amid all the hustle and bustle surrounding their 40th anniversary, the band (best known for those, ya know, “crazy rhythms” on its 1980 debut LP Crazy Rhythms) has casually, quietly, and humbly announced the impending release of their first new studio album in over six years. It’s called In Between, and it was produced by guitarists Glenn Mercer and Bill Million, with the bulk of the thing being casually recorded at Mercer’s home in Haledon, New Jersey. It’ll be released February 24 via Bar/None. Case closed. NBD.

“On the new record we did a lot of it at my house in my home studio with extra equipment,” Mercer explained in a recent interview with Impose Magazine. “It’s the same room where we rehearsed […] so it’s a room we’re really familiar with and feel comfortable in. We refer to it as ‘off the clock’ when you’re not paying an hourly rate, so in that sense it was a lot more relaxed.”

No art or tracklisting stuff has surfaced as of yet, but damn; you know you’ve been at this gig for a while when your legendary band whose first missive to the world was called “The Boy With The Perpetual Nervousness” is somehow banging out full new albums of terse, tightly-wound new wave music and somehow being incredibly chill about it at the same time. Better stay tuned, guys, or you might miss this whole, effortless thing.

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