The Feeling’s debut album Twelve Stops and Home is so remarkably inoffensive that it’s difficult to know exactly what to make of it. The pop structures that the five-piece employ are classic – they date back to the pre-punk era of Supertramp and the Bay City Rollers.

As such, Twelve Stops and Home is an entirely middle-of-the-road conglomerate of harmonies and ringing guitars as everyday tales of suburban life are told by frontman Dan Gillespie Sells. The likes of “Kettle’s On” sum it up nicely, as do the confection “Love It When You Call”.

At its best, as on the opening mega-harmonies of “I Want You Know” and the sweet “Sewn”, the Feeling are capable of capturing a really nice, er, feeling. Sells doesn’t have a particularly outstanding voice, but he carries a song with his delicate phrasing and lovelorn lyrics.

But at its worst – the execrable “Fill My Little World – the Feeling are entirely sappy and the emotion feels entirely lacking in truth. The band have divided opinion in Britain where they’ve been simultaneously feted and slated for their MOR soft-rock feel. You can bet that the vast populace are going to love it though, as it’s so easy on the ears.