Feist had always had plans to add strings to her new album Metals. So when she and her three co-producers (Gonzalez, Mocky and Valgeir Sigurðsson) finished the basic tracks at Big Sur, they went looking for a California string quartet. Mocky called someone he knew who recommended someone else, who recommended the Bay Area’s Real Vocal String Quartet. The studio’s remote location meant that it took three hours to download a YouTube video of the band at the Berkeley nightclub Freight and Savage, but that was enough for Feist to extend an invitation. What she saw in the video were...
- 10/5/2011
- Pastemagazine.com
As Hitfix previously announced, Feist will return with a new album, “Metals,” on Oct. 4; her first since 2007's "The Reminder." Now we have album cover art and a track listing for the new Cherrytree/Interscope release, which Leslie Feist recorded in Big Sur, Calif., with previous collaborators Mocky and Chilly Gonzales, as well as Valgeir Sigurðsson. Plus, today Feist released the third of 12 vignettes that preview the album. We've embedded it below the track listing and the updated tour schedule. [More after the jump...] Fan can begin pre-ordering "Metals" Aug. 3. "Metals" track listing: 1 The Bad in Each Other ...
- 8/2/2011
- Hitfix
For the first time in four years, Feist is back with a new album. "Metals" will be released on Oct. 4 and and includes contributions from longtime collaborators Mocky and Chilly Gonzales, plus Valgeir Sigurðsson who has helped out with Bjork and Bonnie "Prince" Billy. The set will likely be 12 tracks long, as Cherrytree/Interscope has promised a dozen different video teasers in anticipation of the fall release. Two of these super-compressed, numerically titled snippets of music can be heard below. "Metals" was recorded out of Big Sur, Calif., which could influence some of the Canadian singer's developments since last "The...
- 7/25/2011
- Hitfix
Love is a battlefield
Love is a supremely destructive force in Ane Brun’s songs, which document the devastation that ineluctably follows romance. It’s a fitting subject for the Scandinavian singer/songwriter, whose voice can be as tender as a bruise or as sharp as blame. On Changing of the Seasons, her quietly intense fifth album (but only her second to get a U.S. release), she and producer Valgeir Sigurðsson keep the music minimal—usually with only piano or guitar accompaniment—to highlight her expressive vocals and create a lonely, late-night mood. “Ten Seconds” and “Armour” add ominous strings and backing vocals to suggest some unspeakable emotional violence, and opener “The Treehouse Song”—perhaps the perkiest song here—uses its skipping-stone hook to recount grave disappointments. At times, Seasons threatens to collapse under the weight of so much pathos, but thanks to her singular voice and eccentric songwriting,...
Love is a supremely destructive force in Ane Brun’s songs, which document the devastation that ineluctably follows romance. It’s a fitting subject for the Scandinavian singer/songwriter, whose voice can be as tender as a bruise or as sharp as blame. On Changing of the Seasons, her quietly intense fifth album (but only her second to get a U.S. release), she and producer Valgeir Sigurðsson keep the music minimal—usually with only piano or guitar accompaniment—to highlight her expressive vocals and create a lonely, late-night mood. “Ten Seconds” and “Armour” add ominous strings and backing vocals to suggest some unspeakable emotional violence, and opener “The Treehouse Song”—perhaps the perkiest song here—uses its skipping-stone hook to recount grave disappointments. At times, Seasons threatens to collapse under the weight of so much pathos, but thanks to her singular voice and eccentric songwriting,...
- 10/14/2008
- Pastemagazine.com
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