Sunday , June 13, 2010
Soundtracks: Feist, The Reminder
I really tried not to like Feist, but then I gave in like a lot of other people once I heard "Mushaboom" out and about so often. I liked her last record, Let It Die, well enough, with her "Sade for indie rockers" feel and her lissome, rich voice. (And we're suckers for any musical ingenue with a Francoise Hardy vibe and a thing for Vanessa Bruno.) Let It Die was kind of easy listening, pleasant Sunday cleaning-your-apartment music, and not unlike something you'd hear piped over the stereo system at your local Starbucks, something we found both alarming and strangely intriguing. Her music's essential likeability can make a casual listener discount it, and in some ways, with her new record The Reminder, I'm still not convinced that her songs own me and my imagination the same way, say, Joanna Newsom's did last year. Still, the songs this time around have more jagged edges and hidden little eccentricities, but they're still incredibly attractive, kind of like that mysterious, pretty girl who lived down the hall from you in college that you found out was sad, melancholy and a little goofy like everyone else. And there's still Feist's voice, which is more affecting and warm as it gets less and less studied and careful. So, yeah, I'm intrigued, although I'd still love to see Feist really rip into it at some point. As Iggy once said, "Gimme danger," right?
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