{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Feel the Sound | type = studio | artist = Imperial Teen | cover =Imperial Teen – Feel The Sound.jpg | alt = | released = {{Start date|2012|01|31}} | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Pop rock, alternative rock | length = | label = Merge | producer = | prev_title = The Hair the TV the Baby & the Band | prev_year = 2007 | next_title = Now We Are Timeless | next_year = 2019 }}
'''''Feel the Sound''''' is the fifth studio album by the indie pop band Imperial Teen. It was released in 2012 on Merge Records. The follow-up to 2007's ''The Hair the TV the Baby and the Band'', the album was recorded while members of the band were living variously in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City.<ref name= "catchingup">{{cite news |last=Jordan |first=Louis |url= http://www.out.com/entertainment/popnography/2012/01/31/catching-imperial-teens-will-schwartz |title=Catching Up With Imperial Teen's Will Schwartz |work=Out |date=2012-01-31 }}</ref> While previous albums had been produced by Steven McDonald of Redd Kross,<ref name= "spinreview">{{cite news |last=Menconi |first=David |url= http://www.spin.com/reviews/imperial-teen-feel-sound-merge |title=Imperial Teen, 'Feel the Sound' (Merge) |work=Spin |date=2012-01-26 }}</ref> ''Feel the Sound'' is self-produced.
==Reception== {{Music ratings | MC = 71/100<ref name=MC>{{Cite web |url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/feel-the-sound/imperial-teen |title=Feel the Sound by Imperial Teen Reviews and Tracks |publisher=Metacritic |access-date=December 4, 2017}}</ref> | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name=AllMusic>{{Cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/feel-the-sound-mw0002273536 |title=Feel the Sound - Imperial Teen |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=December 4, 2017}}</ref> | rev2 = ''The A.V. Club'' | rev2score = B<ref name=AVClub>{{Cite web |url=https://www.avclub.com/imperial-teen-feel-the-sound-1798171329 |title=Imperial Teen: Feel the Sound |publisher=The A.V. Club |access-date=December 4, 2017}}</ref> | rev3 = ''Beats Per Minute'' | rev3score = 66%<ref name=BPM>{{Cite web |url=https://beatsperminute.com/reviews/album-review-imperial-teen-feel-the-sound/ |title=Album Review: Imperial Teen - Feel the Sound |publisher=Beats Per Minute |access-date=December 4, 2017}}</ref> | rev4 = ''Billboard'' | rev4score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref name=Billboard>{{Cite web |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/review/1067124/album-review-imperial-teen-feel-the-sound#/new-releases/album-review-imperial-teen-feel-the-sound-1006067352.story |title=Album Review: Imperial Teen, 'Feel the Sound' |publisher=Billboard |access-date=December 4, 2017}}</ref> | rev5 = ''Consequence of Sound'' | rev5score = C+<ref name=CoS>{{Cite web |url=https://consequence.net/2012/02/album-review-imperial-teen-feel-the-sound/ |title=Imperial Teen - Feel the Sound |publisher=Consequence of Sound |access-date=December 4, 2017}}</ref> | rev6 = ''Pitchfork'' | rev6score = 6.2/10<ref name=Pitchfork>{{Cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16260-feel-the-sound/ |title=Imperial Teen: Feel the Sound Album Review |publisher=Pitchfork |access-date=December 4, 2017}}</ref> | rev7 = ''Rolling Stone'' | rev7score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref name=RollStone>{{Cite web |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/feel-the-sound-20120131 |title=Feel the Sound |publisher=Rolling Stone |access-date=December 4, 2017}}</ref> | rev8 = ''Spin'' | rev8score = 8/10<ref name=spinreview/> | rev9 = ''Tiny Mix Tapes'' | rev9score = {{rating|1.5|5|full=TMT full.svg|half=TMT half.svg|empty=TMT empty.svg|rating=mark}}<ref name=TMT>{{Cite web |url=https://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/imperial-teen-feel-sound |title=Imperial Teen - Feel the Sound |publisher=Tiny Mix Tapes |access-date=December 4, 2017}}</ref> }}
''Feel the Sound'' received positive reviews from critics. On Metacritic, the album holds a score of 71/100 based on 21 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
==Track listing==
{{Track listing
| title1 = Runaway | length1 = 3:28
| title2 = No Matter What You Say | length2 = 3:30
| title3 = Last to Know | length3 = 3:46
| title4 = Over His Head | length4 = 3:49
| title5 = Hanging About | length5 = 3:58
| title6 = All the Same | length6 = 3:27
| title7 = Don't Know How You Do It | length7 = 3:30
| title8 = Out from Inside | length8 = 3:57
| title9 = The Hibernates | length9 = 3:20
| title10 = It's You | length10 = 2:55
| title11 = Overtaken | length11 = 4:32
| total_length =40:12
}}
==References== {{reflist}}
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