Feist: Metals

Feist
Metals
Cherrytree/Interscope Records [2011]









Fire Note Says: Feist lights the torches on her excellent new album Metals!

Album Review:
Metals is Canadian singer-songwriter Leslie Feist's follow up to her 2007 breakthrough album The Reminder. It is a record that takes a very safe but sophisticated approach and moves track to track in an intricate whimsical manner. Metals leaves behind the bounce of her big hit "1234" and replaces the energy with more grooving numbers like first single "How Come You Never Go There", which swings n sways with a swagger that still completely works for Feist. Even when things pick up a bit, like on "A Commotion", the song structure is still controlled, as the vocals never really break out even though the music does. This musical trend continues throughout Metals, which holds it back from reaching The Reminder type critical status but without ever discounting Feist's absolutely stellar vocal talent, Metals is still a fine piece of work. It is an album that may not be as immediately accessible as some of her earlier material but Metals is a record that will still please Feist fans with its maturity and gets better every time you spin it!

Key Tracks: "How Come You Never Go There", "The Undiscovered First", "The Bad In Each Other"

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Fiona Apple
Kate Bush
St. Vincent

Feist: The Reminder [Fire Note Review 11/29/07]

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-Reviewed by Christopher Anthony