At last, a new group that won't be dismayed to know that grandmothers think they're nicer than 50 Cent. Londoners the Feeling are loud in their desire to turn the world back on to soft rock, a genre hounded out of fashion by punk 30 years ago. "Embrace the cheese," as singer Dan Gillespie Sells puts it. They sound like an amalgam of their idols 10cc and Fleetwood Mac, balancing the bass-heavy anglopop of one with the west-coast harmonies of the other, making for a proposition with only the most tenuous connection to modern music. The odd thing, though, isn't that five twentysomethings should be so swayed by their parents' record collections but that a recent BBC poll of industry "tastemakers" voted them the third most promising band for 2006.

Even more oddly, if the Feeling are the vanguard of an MOR revival (and there's more of this kind of thing around), their most vocal champions are teenagers. This basement was full of them, wriggling to the novel sound of tunes whose genesis could be traced to Fleetwood Mac's Rumours album. But would they have been quite as enthusiastic if it had been the real Fleetwood Mac up there, picking their way through delicacies such as Rosé? I imagine not. Though the Feeling are confident purveyors of swooshy, sweetened melody, their looks gave this show the hormonal spike the music alone wouldn't have achieved.

Sells, who is testament to the fact that posh people can break through pop's glass ceiling, was the flirty fulcrum of the operation, seconded by bassist Richard Jones (who is married to Sophie Ellis Bextor). When Sells announced he had a cold, the crowd squeaked solicitously. Nice work if you can get it, Dan, and chances are - judging by the instant hummability of the buoyant songs from your debut album, Twelve Stops and Home - that you'll be getting a lot of it.

· At the Square, Harlow (01279 305000), on February 10, then touring.