FEEL is the 5th original studio album by Hope and Social. Written and recorded over a two year period, we stole an 808 handclap and anything else we could get our hands on, chucked it in a bag and shook it all up. The album is covered in analog synths, brass, backing vocals. And coffee mugs. And ukuleles. Numerous home keyboards. A concert xylophone we found in a garden. Plastic trombones. A swanee whistle... And 6 different kids brass bands. And an elephant… flying a helicopter.

It sounds very much like Hope and Social… but Hope and Social now we guess! We hope you like…

As a companion to the album we’ve commissioned a video for each song on the album. (Read about it all here www.hopeandsocial.co.uk/2016/06/16/9-videos-for-9-songs/). Taking absolutely no control of the creative process of the video stuff, has been a great experience. We’ve been surprised and delighted by the results! And feel very lucky that it all remained mainly family friendly. We’ll be releasing all the videos one by one and you can see the results so far here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRUvV6l8w3GkO-Qn9-65a3ebwLRydldvo

All Hope and Social's music is released on a Pay WHat Yu Want (Including FREE!) basis at music.hopeandsocial.com

released October 7, 2016

All songs written by Hope and Social and Simon Goff (retired)

Mixed by Ed Waring

Mastered by Tom Woodhead, Hippocratic Mastering

All songs performed by Hope and Social: Simon Fletcher, James Hamilton, Richard Huxley, Gary Stewart, Ed Waring and Simon Wainwright

Additional horns: Simon Dennis, Russell Henderson, Stuart Garside, Tom I'Anson

Recorded at The Crypt, West Yorkshire 2015/16

Huge thanks to everyone who supports us and keeps us going. You are appreciated more than you will ever know.

FEEL by Hope and Social is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

This album is dedicated to the memory of John Wheeler. Friend, mentor and inspiration