The Reminder
Feist
Engineer: Renaud Letang,
Producer: Renaud Letang, Feist, Gonales
Interscope Records (USA), 2007
1 CD
Catalogue #: 9847412
EAN: 0602498474129
UPC: 602498474129
Personnel include: Feist (acoustic guitar); Bryden Baird (flugelhorn); Mocky (acoustic bass); Julian Brown (electric bass); Jesse Baird, Gonzales (drums); Jamie Lidell (unknown instrument); Town Hall (background vocals).
Additional personnel: Eirik Glambek Boe (vocals); Afie Jurvanen (guitar); Lori Gemmel (harp); Sandra Baron (violin); Mary Stein (cello); Pierre Luc Jamain (organ); Ohad Benchetrit, Charles Spearin (unknown instrument); Kevin Drew, Brendan Canning (background vocals).
Recording information: 2006.
Canadian singer-songwriter Leslie Feist first gained prominence working with the Montreal shock-rapper Peaches and later the Toronto-based collective Broken Social Scene, but with the release of 2004's masterful LET IT DIE, she embarked on a solo career that quickly eclipsed her previous work. Following the pleasant but inessential remix album OPEN SEASON, 2007's THE REMINDER is Feist's true follow-up to LET IT DIE, and it deepens and solidifies that album's strengths. Combining jazzy torch songs with acoustic, folkish ballads, THE REMINDER is as quietly powerful as her Broken Social Scene bandmate Emily Haines's equally subdued solo debut, KNIVES DON'T HAVE YOUR BACK, but with a jazzy edge that recalls Nina Simone on tunes like "Sea Lion" (a standard also recorded by Simone) and the lush single "My Moon, My Man."
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Canadian singer-songwriter Leslie Feist has fronted punk bands, played in Broken Social Scene, and backed her pal Peaches, but is most beloved for her introspective folk-pop solo albums, which she releases between side jaunts. She possesses an ethereal voice that slides effortlessly into a haunting soprano, and applies this to melodic tunes that brush up against electronica, Tin Pan Alley pop, and good old-fashioned confessional folk. She has been remixed by various DJs and collaborated with hipsters both current (the Postal Service) and vintage (Jane Birkin). Her 2007 album, THE REMINDER, topped many critics' best-of-the-year lists.
