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More beautifully melodic heartache from Leslie Feist

Leslie Feist, whose artist name is the more economic Feist, has made quite a name for herself through her association with Broken Social Scene and her quite beautiful folk/pop solo work, highlighted here on new album The Reminder.  Many of the aspects of traditional singer-songwriter records are present – emotive vocals, introspective lyrics etc.  But there is a satin-clad ‘70s pop swish to the lush I Feel It All and My Moon My Man, the latter song suddenly interrupted by footsteps entering a landscape of chirruping birds.  These segue effortlessly into the sparse acoustics of The Park, later followed by the Nina Simone tribute Sealion (reviving Simone’s clapping barnstormer See-Line Woman).  There’s a soulful, Carole King-esque flavour to The Limit To Your Love, a jaunty horn-and-banjo interlude in 1234 (a rhythmically accurate title, by the way – you could stroll along the promenade to it!) and a gentle electronica pulse at the heart of cyber torch song Honey Honey.  A lush picture book of an album.

***½

MATT THROWER

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