Songfacts®:

• Del Amitri recorded "It's Feelings" for Fatal Mistakes, the band's first album in 19 years. It was the last track they recorded for the project.
• The song finds vocalist Justin Currie reflecting on how humans often don't know why they are feeling the way they do. Our feelings are frequently guided by instinct, provoking actions that are emotionally led rather than rational.
• Currie told The Sun "It's Feelings" originated with guitarist Iain Harvie coming up with a whole song, which he just threw a lyric over without changing the structure or adding a middle eight. "It really reminded me of the kind of thing we were doing in the late '80s," he added. "Highly melodic and sunny with a lyric working against that."
• Del Amitri recorded Fatal Mistakes over three weeks in March 2020 in a stately English home. The quintet laid down the tracks in an entirely naturalistic approach, playing live rather than booting up laptops.
• Dan Austin (Biffy Clyro, You Me At Six) produced the record. Justin Currie told The Sun: "We considered working with a couple of people we recorded with before but as soon as we met Dan we took to him and were pretty sure we could work with them. He's 15 years younger than most of us and comes from a really interesting background where he knows the fundamentals of classic analog recording and has complete mastery of the digital process, so he's the best of both worlds."