Sean Kitching

On the cover of their fifth album [Another Chance To Succeed In Life], the trio of guitarist Eblis Alvarez, bassist Mario Galeano, and drummer Pedro Ojeda, gaze upwards in unison as though they were three heads on a single body, an illusion created by an over exposure of light against the white shirts each wears.

The Feelies by Lynne Pickering Taking their name from Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, The Feelies were formed in Haledon, New Jersey, in 1976. Hailed by The Village Voice in 1978 as “The best underground band in New York”, they underwent a number of line-up changes around core members Glenn Mercer and Bill Million as they finely tuned their sound, before finally releasing their debut album in 1980.

From their formation in Kingston upon Thames in 1977, their first single (as Cardiac Arrest) in 1979, through several different incarnations and ten self-released studio albums, Cardiacs persisted against the evident distaste of the mainstream music press, carving out their own unique space as one of the most cultish of UK underground bands.