Artist.......: Feist
Album........: SoirÚe de Poche (La BlogothŔque)
Label........: Polydor
Genre........: Pop
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: 2012-09-16
Str.date.....: 2011-10-11
Quality......: 210kbps/48.0kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://www.listentofeist.com/
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1. SoirÚe de Poche (La BlogothŔque) 25:43
Runtime 25:43
Size 38.68
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Born Leslie Feist in Amherst, Nova Scotia, singer/songwriter Feist relocated to
Calgary at a young age and got her start playing in an all-girl punk band named
Placebo (not to be confused with the U.K. modern rock act of the same name).
After winning a battle-of-the-bands contest, Placebo (whose members were still
in high school) played their first gig opening for the Ramones in 1991, and for
the next five years, Feist sharpened her rock & roll ways alongside her
bandmates. Touring across Canada ultimately took its toll on Feist, who had
strained her voice so harshly that she was told she'd never sing again. To
regain focus and seek medical assistance from another specialist, Feist left her
hometown and resettled in Toronto in 1998.
After being advised to stop singing for six months, Feist bought a guitar and
spent most of that time in her basement, where she began crafting a quirky pop
sound and documented her progress with a four-track recorder. A year later,
Feist was asked to join By Divine Right as the group's touring guitarist. The
new gig found her playing in front of stadium crowds as By Divine Right opened
for the Tragically Hip across North America, yet it still afforded her enough
time to record and self-release her first solo album, 1999's Monarch (Lay Down
Your Jeweled Head). After playing some smaller solo gigs in the Toronto area,
Feist moved in with electroclash rap vixen Peaches in 2000. Peaches christened
Feist "Bitch Lap-Lap," and from there, Feist helped record and tour in support
of Peaches' debut album, Teaches of Peaches.
Never keen on staying too long in one place, Feist joined Broken Social Scene
during the recording of that group's sophomore effort, You Forgot It in People.
The album became a critical success after its release in 2002, winning Broken
Social Scene a Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year. Meanwhile, Feist
had already begun formulating plans for a second solo album. When she wasn't
touring North America and Europe with Broken Social Scene, she worked on her
solo material with Renaud Letang of Manu Chao and Chilly Gonzales, often
traveling back and forth between Calgary, Toronto, and Paris for the recording
sessions. Let It Die was soon released on the Arts & Crafts label in May 2004,
and the sprightly single "Mushaboom" enjoyed airplay in Canada, France, and
America. By the end of the following year, the album had earned Feist her
greatest acclaim to date, and she took home two Juno Awards for her work.
Open Season, a collection of remixes, collaborations, and other songs, was
released in 2006. Feist then set to work on her next full-length effort,
recording and assembling the material in one week in a rented house near Paris.
The Reminder hit shelves in the spring of 2007, where it debuted at number two
in Canada and number 16 on the U.S. Billboard charts. Supported by singles like
"My Moon My Man" and "1234," the album became the year's best-selling item on
iTunes, took home five Juno Awards, earned four Grammy nominations, and paved
the way for Look at What the Light Did Now, a documentary film highlighting the
album and its accompanying tour. Feistĺs fourth studio album was preceded by a
flurry of viral videos that offered choice bits from selected tracks, leading up
to the official release of Metals' first single, ôHow Come You Never Go There.ö
The 14-track recording, which featured duets with Vanessa Carlton and Marina &
the Diamonds, arrived on October 4, 2011.