Its hit single '1234' (remember the whimsical music video that accompanied it) became so pervasive that the snippet used in Apple's iPod Nano commercial might still be stuck in your head. Recorded in both Big Sur, Calif., and Toronto, Metals is a deeply feminine examination of love, nature, and humanity that reflects both the expansiveness of the end of the continent and the gritty patina of modern urban existence. Four years ago, Leslie Feistwho performs under her last namereleased The Reminder. 'Comfort Me' speaks the dense truth of iron when Feist sings, 'When you comfort me/It doesn't bring me comfort actually.' 'The Bad in Each Other' is copper, conducting heat and electricity from the mutual wounds inflicted by good men and good women upon each other.

This ode to a one-night stand is accompanied by a must-watch music video that features Leslie Feist dancing alongside hip hop artist Buck 65, aka Rich Terfry. Bittersweet Melodies Metals (2011) If you want to shed a few tears, listen to this song while watching the music video. Its climax swells with rage, clanging and rattling with stomps and tambourines that embody the mental noise of a woman dissatisfied with her emotional lot. 10 Essential Songs By Feist Post navigation. Here's mercury with 'Undiscovered First,' the most powerful song here.

Metals is darker, more contemplative, heavier, a heady, atomic blend of folk-pop and emotional menace. Where those songs represented the buoyant marriage of indie sensibilities and a sweet pop tooth, Metals lacks any one track that provides that frisson of sheer pleasure provided by bubble gum with indie cred.

While Metals, Leslie Feist's fourth full-length album, lacks the playfulness and Г©lan of 2007's The Reminder, which gave us '1234' and 'I Feel It All,' it may actually be a far more precious document.

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