Feist - "Mushaboom". From the upcoming solo debut of Leslie Feist (By Divine Right, Peaches, Broken Social Scene). As fluxblog attested, the demo to this song was beautiful, and the final version delves even deeper into the wonderful. It's whimsical and violetbright, filled out with piano and drums and shaker and xylophone and horns. Feist is cream-voiced and pleased to be there, her melody a pretty and small-petalled flower.
Feist - "When I Was a Young Girl". With its bongos and handclaps, the song risks being something indulgent and rather inane. It's saved by the long stare of a sharp electric guitar, however: a cowboy glare that clears away the incense. Still, more than anything, "When I Was a Young Girl" - like much of Let It Die - is pretty. This is a blessing and a curse: while Feist will be perfect alongside Hem and Nedelle and other silken-voiced indie-jazz chanteuses, she's hardly the anti-Norah that some predicted.
Posted by Sean at March 15, 2004 12:18 AM