Artist : Feist
Album : The Reminder
Label : Polydor
Genre : Indie
Bitrate : 148 kbps avg
Source : CD (LP)
Playtime : 00:24:06 (26.2MB)
Rls date : 2007-06-09
Store date : 2007-05-01
[Track List]
1. Sea Lion (Chromeo Remix) 3:48
2. My Moon My Man (Boys Noize Remix) 6:42
3. I Feel It All (Instrumental) 3:46
4. 1234 (Instrumental 3:09
5. Past In Present (Instrumental) 2:57
6. My Moon My Man (Instrumental) 3:44
There are the things you need to know about Feist in order
to fall in love with 'The Reminder'. In past lives, she
was a battle of the bands teen queen in a Calgary punk
band. She breathed life into surreal sock puppets
alongside her electro-trash friend Peaches. She made
bashful indie boys swoon with her fronting Canadian indie
rock genre definers Broken Social Scene. She made
vaudeville futuristic while flanking berlin underground
presidency candidate Gonzales. She s been placed in the
role of the most unlikely fashion icon. But mostly she s a
tomboy who doesn t really do make-up.
Nobody, least of all Feist, anticipated the response
listeners around the world would have to her [first solo
album] 'Let It Die'. Half a million albums sold, gigs
around the world sold out, awards were won. Her name
appeared in Best Of The Year lists. All of a sudden, a
girl who was barely an unknown secret outside of Canada
was very much on the global musical radar. Her response?
To keep touring. Thirty-three months and three continents
were covered.
Her new album The Reminder was written and conceptualised
on the way. Recorded in just two weeks in a 200 year old
manor house on the outskirts of Paris, it s players
include Gonzales, Jamie Lidell, Mocky and Erik Glambek Boe
of The Kings Of Convenience. They filled the dining room
and parlour with a piano, vibraphones, organs, guitars,
amps shoves two drum kits against the stained glass
windows and scattered microphones like mousetraps around
wood-floored rooms.
It s hard not to be floored by the breadth and depth of
the material on 'The Reminder', as represented here. 'My
Moon My Man', with it s sucker-punch melody tumbling over
hard-soul piano chords. The jangly 'Dusty In Memphis',
teen dream paean '1234'. Live fave 'Sealion', the
traditional chant famously covered by Nina Simone, got
propelled into the stratosphere with cell phone sounding
synths, handclaps and a backing mini gospel choir. 'I Feel
It All', with it s joyous gusto, and finally, the
shimmering, plaintive 'The Park', showcasing Feist s
stunning vocals, in this beautiful reflection of London s
green haunts.
In some ways, 'The Reminder' is more Feist than anything
she s done before, but don t take our word for it; you
need to hear it.