Feel (album)

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chronology
Feel
Sleeping with Sirens studio album
Publication ; (s)	June 3, 2013 (United Kingdom); June 4, 2013 (North America); June 14, 2013 (Europe)
Label (s)	Rise Records
Format (s)	CD , download
Genre (s)	Post-hardcore; Alternative rock; Pop rock;
Title (number)	12
running time	42 min 57 s
occupation	Singing : Kellin Quinn ; Vocals , lead guitar : Jesse Lawson ; Rhythm guitar : Jack Fowler ; E-bass , vocals : Justin Hills; Drums : Gabe Barham; Guest musicians: MGK : Rapping and Screaming in Alone ; Shayley Bourget : vocals in I'll Take You There ; Chris Fronzak : vocals in The Best There Ever Was ; Matty Mullins : Singing in Congratulations ;
production	Cameron Mizell (Production) ; Dan Korneff (Mixing) ; Ted Jensen (Mastering)

Feel is the third studio album by the American rock band Sleeping with Sirens from Grand Rapids , Michigan .

It was released on June 4, 2013 in North America and ten days later in Europe via Rise Records . The album went straight to number three in the US album charts and also reached chart listings in Australia and the United Kingdom for the first time .

The album was produced by Cameron Mizell , while Dan Korneff was responsible for the mix and Ted Jensen for the mastering . Guest musicians included rapper MGK , Chris Fronzak from Attila , Matty Mullins from Memphis May Fire and former Of Mice & Men singer Shayley Bourget . It is the band's last album with Jesse Lawson on guitar .

Backstory

On October 21, 2012, Dead Walker Texas Ranger was the group’s first new song. However, it was a stand-alone single that the musicians released as a special for Helloween . It was announced that the musicians would move into the studio in January 2013 to start recording their third album.

On April 22, 2013, the album was officially announced. It's called Feel and it was scheduled for June 4, 2013 in North America. On the same day, the first single, Low , was released and the pre-order phase also heralded. The album was produced by Cameron Mizell , while Dan Korneff was responsible for the mixing and Ted Jensen for the final mastering .

The second single, Alone , which hosts a guest appearance by rapper MGK , was released on May 21, 2013. A music video was released on June 6, 2013, two days after the album was released. The third and final single, Congratulations , with a guest appearance by Matty Mullins , was officially released on May 26, 2013; a music video followed on October 29 of the same year.

The album was released in the UK on June 3, 2013, a day later in North America and June 14, 2013 in Europe .

Track list

#	title	length	Remarks
1.	Feel	4:41
2.	Here We Go	3:19
3.	Free Now	3:53
4th	Alone	3:54	with MGK
5.	I'll take you there	4:03	with Shayley Bourget
6th	The Best There Ever Was	3:20	with Chris Fronzak
7th	Low	3:42
8th.	Congratulations	4:42	with Matty Mullins
9.	Déjà-vu	3:17
10.	These Things I've Done	3:25
11.	Sorry	3:02
12.	Satellites	3:39

promotion

Between February 23 and March 4, 2013, the band played a short festival tour of Australia as part of the Soundwave Festival . Just one week after performing on the Soundwave, Sleeping with Sirens was on a concert tour of the United States . A smaller promotional tour through several cities in Europe followed in May and June. Five concerts on this tour were moved to larger event centers due to the high demand.

In early summer the musicians were guests of the Kerrang! Awards where they were nominated in the category Best Newcomer Band . In addition, the song King for a Day by Pierce the Veil , in which Kellin Quinn was to be heard as a guest musician, was nominated in two categories. While Sleeping with Sirens didn't win in its category, King for a Day received an award for Best Music Video .

In summer, the group on the whole played Warped Tour before the group in September and October with Hands Like Houses and The Summer Set excessively by European touring. During the European tour, Jesse Lawson announced his departure from the band and was replaced by Nick Martin . This was immediately followed by a tour of the United States, which was accompanied by Our Last Night , Memphis May Fire , Issues and Breathe Carolina , among others . This concert tour ended on November 21, 2013.

success

In the first week of sales, Feel sold about 60,000 times, which meant that the album could enter the US album charts at number three . In March 2015, it was said that the album sold about 180,000 copies. The album stayed in the official charts for a total of twelve weeks.

Feel is also the band's first album that charted outside the United States . It debuted at number 36 in the British and at number 14 in the Australian album charts . The album stayed there for a week at a time.

The single Alone , in which the rapper MGK has a guest appearance, is the band's first song to be listed in the American Hot Rock Songs charts, determined by Billboard magazine . Alone also received a Song of the Year nomination at the first Alternative Press Music Awards . The album itself was nominated in the Album of the Year category; also at the Alternative Press Music Awards .

Reviews

Scott Heisel of the American Alternative Press wrote that the group with Feel made their breakthrough successful, even if their music moves between pop and screamo . The songs Low and Here We Go have already been compared with Saosin during his major times. The collaboration with the rapper MGK sounds quite bizarre on the slip, but the song is proving to be a potential crossover hit. The musical collaboration with Shayley Bourget was also highlighted positively, while the song Congratulations with Matty Mullins as a guest musician was labeled too simple. According to the reviewer, the positive features of the album outweigh the bad features.

Gregory Heaney from Allmusic was of the opinion that the group with their singer Kellin Quinn had a musical weapon in their ranks with whose singing they could build a bridge between pop melodies and aggressive metalcore . The album also represents a ray of hope in today's post-hardcore scene, which has become very homogeneous in recent years .