Metals

Sound DNA

• Alt/Indie
• Indie Rock

• brittle
• intimate
• poetic

About

Canadian indie pop singer and unlikely commercial firepower Leslie Feist builds on the momentum of 2007’s revelatory <i>The Reminder</i> with another song cycle of great variety and adventurous 21st-century pop-rock. Except this time, the artist known as Feist crafts things on a smaller graph, preferring near lo-fi atmospheres and basement auras. Working again with Chilly Gonzales and Somali-Canadian producer Mocky, Feist strips her music to its essentials. She makes art-pop that’s also strangely accessible, as anyone humming the abstract melodies of “The Circle Married the Line” or “How Come You Never Go There” can attest. There’s a dark mood to much of the material, an angry clang to the Scout Niblett–like guitar and vocal of “Undiscovered First” and a desperation to the nocturnal piano number “Bittersweet Melodies.” Strings don’t sweeten but agitate the cinematic pull of “A Commotion.” It’s as if she decided to make her own <i>Exile on Main Street</i>. But where The Rolling Stones explored classic old American forms, Feist seeks to do the same with all that’s come after.

via Apple Music

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