ROCK’N’ROLL CONFIDENTIAL
Feist
Canada’s veracious original talks war cries, the Arcade Fire situation and calling the gods.
Triple strength: Feist – she contains Multitudes.
Sarah Melvin & Colby Richardson
LESLIE FEIST has been making bold, innovative albums since the turn of the century, evolving from the indie faux-jazz of 2004’s Let It Die to 2017’s soul-baring
Pleasure. A star at home in Canada, she has 11 Junos (the Canadian Brits) to her name. Her appositely titled sixth LP, Multitudes, is her first in six years. Its gestation encompassed a period of Covid-induced international turmoil (“all the choices anyone had made turned to amber: I didn’t know if I was going to go out again, so my writing turned inwards”); personal joy with the arrival of her adopted daughter; and personal pain with the death of her father. “My growth has pushed me to new Rubicons of self-understanding,” she says.