Walleater – Can You Feel My Love? Single

Walleater are a quartet who hail from Leeds, England and this is a good old fashioned slice of introspective indie pop. The first track, Can You Feel My Love?, is the kind of crowd pleasing anthemic indie song that would have gone down a storm in the late eighties, it’s reminiscent of The Stone Roses at the height of their powers and if that’s your thing then you should probably investigate their bandcamp. The second offering on this single is Lifeline and it’s more of the same, although for me it’s a slightly stronger more upbeat song. Had this been released three decades ago I think they might well have had a potential hit single on their hands, but is this something there’s a demand for in 2016? 

Whilst this by no means a bad release it’s like an echo from a previous era, Walleater sound like a band that’s arrived late to the party. Had they been around at the height of indie and shoegaze popularity the sky might well have been the limit for them, but here in 2016 they sound like something of an anachronism. However, we live in an era where reunion tours are filling sizeable venues, pretty much every indie band from the eighties has reformed and there seems to be an inexhaustible demand for the sounds of yesterday, so you never know. At the very least this is cetrtainly a better single than The Stone Roses new release.

You can purchase this single and their back catalog here.