Feist
Leslie Feist came in to the world in Novia Scotia during the February of 1976. The first in a long list of bands for whom she would lend vocals was a punk act called Placebo (not that Placebo, dummy), with whom she toured screaming her Canadian lungs out to the point of actually damaging her voice to the degree that time off music was needed to recover.
Not for long though, as a return to playing came with her guitar skills being offered to the band By Divine Right at around the same time as she released her first solo album, entitled ‘Monarch (Lay Your Jewelled Head Down)’ in 1999.
Come 2000 and we find the sultry chanteuse shacked up with Peaches and producer Gonzales in Berlin, appearing on the latter’s debut album and forming a side project with her under the name Bitch Lap Lap. Just imagine what that sounded like…
Two years were spent with the pair in Germany, during which time she also recorded her second solo LP ‘Let It Die’ and hooked up with ever expanding indie troubadours Broken Social Scene around the time of ‘You Forgot It In People’, before moving to Paris. Oh, and she also found time to guest on King’s Of Convenience’s ‘Riot on an Empty Street’. And The New Deal’s ‘Gone Gone Gone’. And Apostle of Hustle’s ‘Folkoric Feel’. And did some stuff with The Postal Service…
Enough with the guest appearances! It’s now time for Lady Feist’s third solo LP, ‘The Reminder’, to remind you that, y’know, she does actually make her own music too. And it’s brilliant – inventive indie rock with its gaze fixed firmly on the future.
FEISTSPACE: Feist videos, Feist songs, Feist tourdates… very feisty.
LISTEN TO FEIST: Feist’s official website. Do what its address implores you to.
A REMINDER FROM ARTS AND CRAFTS: Feist’s Canadian label serves up all you need to know about her new LP. That’s ‘The Reminder’, in case you’d forgotten.
FEIST ON VIRB: What is Virb exactly, other than a misspelling of ‘verb’? Who knows. This, with its music vids and excellent photography, looks pretty great though. I want one.
ALL THINGS FEIST: Feist fans show they care. A lot.
FEIST LIVE REVIEW BY JEREMY WARMSLEY: Kindred spirits, these two? Our sister label Transgressive Records’ very own genius J-Wo caught Leslie at Shepherds Bush last week. Mightily impressed he was, too.
MUSHABOOM: Ner ner ner we liked her before you. Unless you were in Berlin in 1999 or something.
INSIDE AND OUT: Leslie covers a Bee Gees song, and does better than Take That.
1,2,3,4:
ONE EVENING:
MUSHABOOM: