Feel It (MJ Cole song)
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| Single by MJ Cole featuring Piri & Tommy Villiers | ||||
| Released | 20 January 2023 | |||
| Genre | UK garage | |||
| Length | 3:12 (original mix) 3:06 (VIP mix) 4:56 (VIP extended mix) | |||
| Label | 892 | |||
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"Feel It" is a 2023 single by MJ Cole featuring Piri & Tommy Villiers. Released on 20 January 2023 on 892 Recordings, the song was Piri & Tommy's first since splitting up and contained a guitar solo from Villiers. The song received positive reception, with many reviewers highlighting Piri's vocals for praise, and the track received airplay by BBC Radio 1 and Capital Dance.
In 2020, just before the second United Kingdom COVID-19 lockdown,[1] Piri matched on Tinder with Tommy Villiers.[2] A couple of weeks later, one of the band's photographers retweeted one of their photo shoots, prompting her to find his Instagram account and ask him out.[3]: 38:07 The pair released "Soft Spot" in June 2021, which went viral on TikTok and Spotify, prompting EMI to sign the pair, re-release the track,[4] and release a remix by MJ Cole,[5] a garage producer who had collaborated with Wiley, AJ Tracey, Dizzee Rascal,[6] and Stormzy.[7]
Recording and release
"Feel It" was recorded in early 2022 at MJ Cole's studio[6] and contains a guitar solo from Villiers.[7] It was the band's first trip to a studio, as all of their previous recordings had been conducted in their bedrooms.[8] The track was released on 20 January 2023 on 892 Recordings,[7] Cole's own label,[9] and has been described as "UK garage-oriented".[10] "Feel It" was the band's first track to be released after breaking up,[10] having announced the end of their romantic relationship in January 2023[11] but having actually done so a week after the end of Froge.tour[12]: 44:25 in November 2022.[13]
Reception
The song was premiered on Radio 1's Dance Party with Danny Howard[14] and made the Capital Dance playlist.[15] Joren Van der Plas of Dancing Bears described the track as "a perfect feel-good song to start the weekend with".[6] Many reviewers highlighted Piri's vocals for praise; Caradoc Gayer of Indiependent.co.uk described Piri's vocals as "light-hearted" and wrote that the beat "skitters" over them,[10] while Wonderland Magazine described her voice as "angelic" and asked "what better way" there was "to send them off than with this absolute meeting of minds".[16] Matthew Perpetua used his Fluxblog to note that Piri's tone was "so relaxed and low-key" that it neutralised the "frantic quality" of the music "without compromising [its] velocity" and likened Cole's contribution to "someone showing up with a cool lighting rig and changing the ambiance" [sic].[17] On 13 February 2023, the song was used in a series nine broadcast of Love Island.[18]