| Product Summary | | Label: Universal Music Group | | UPC: 00602498474129 | | Release Date: 5/1/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 204347942 | | Item#: M3KPE6 | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 52091 | Format:  CD |
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"...an exceptional album that should be experienced solely on the merits its stunning musicality." Christian John Wikane, PopMatters
"Enough variety is here, and it all fits together as beautifully..." Shain Shapiro, Drowned In Sound
"...a modestly scaled but quietly profound pop gem...filled with love songs and hints of mystery." The New York Times
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Notes & Personnel Info | | 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." |
Producer: Renaud Letang; Feist; Gonales |
Engineer: Renaud Letang |
| | Artist Overview | | 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. |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 05/01/2007 | | Original Release Date : 2007 | | Catalog ID : B000881902 | | Label : Interscope Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Runtime : 50m : 1s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00602498474129 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (p.114)
- Included in Rolling Stone's "50 Top Albums of the Year 2007" -- "Feist reaches out with gorgeously lovelorn ballads..."Spin (p.85)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "[L]isten through headphones and the album offers up bits of subdermal weirdness, as in 'Honey, Honey,' where luscious harmony vocals tangle with field-recording white noise." Magnet (p.96)
- "Even from a secular point of view, it's difficult to characterize Leslie Feist's voice as anything but a divine gift." Entertainment Weekly 10 of 10
Like her 2005 breakthrough "Let It Die", Leslie Feist's latest shows how this critics' darling also woos regular folks. She has a sexy, slyly powerful, charmingly imperfect voice. She crafts deliciously catchy, acoustic-based songs with motifs recalling '80s radio hits (from Springsteen to Soft Cell) as much as the '00s Toronto indie-rock scene she began in. And her simple lyrics both seduce (''On milky skin my tongue is sand'') and court singalongs (''1, 2, 3, 4/Tell me that you love me more''). In short: "The Reminder" is another multifaceted gem. - Will Hermes
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| | Bio | | | Feist Here are the things you need to know about Feist. She's much more than just the torch singer leaning against the ballad with a lone spotlight on her. In a past life, she was a shouty battle of the bands teen queen in a Calgary punk band. She's made bashful indie boys swoon with her brash riffs playing guitar with Toronto rock band By Divine Right and her shout-out fronting of Canadian indie rock genre definers Broken Social Scene. She's stubborn and meticulous about things like the EQ level on the stereo and her long honed guitar tone. She's been placed in the role of the most unlikely fashion icon, but mostly she's a tomboy who doesn't really do make-up. She may be able to warble a bouncy foxtrot like Mushaboom that your grandparents wish they could?ve cranked on their Victrola, but she also breathed life into surreal sock puppets alongside her electro-trash BFF Peaches in Berlin and beyond. The cult-favoured original, raw demos for "Let It Die" and "The Reminder "included the sound of streetcars rattling along city streets. Onstage she can pivot between being the solo singer captivating a room with her guitar or take on the role of leading a band of three brothers Nobody, least of all Feist, anticipated the tremendous response listeners around the world would have to "Let It Die". Awards were won. Her name appeared in Best Of The Year lists. Eager bandwagon-jumpers were turned away from festival showcases. All of a sudden, a girl who was barely an unknown secret outside of Canada had top 10 radio singles filtering through malls and grocery stores. Her response? To keep touring.
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