{"id":4254,"date":"2011-11-06T15:47:09","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T22:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=4254"},"modified":"2011-11-06T15:48:36","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T22:48:36","slug":"feist-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/11\/feist-2\/","title":{"rendered":"FEIST"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/M-Review-SeptemberOctober2011-FEIST.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4253\" title=\"M-Review-SeptemberOctober2011-FEIST\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/M-Review-SeptemberOctober2011-FEIST.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/M-Review-SeptemberOctober2011-FEIST.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/M-Review-SeptemberOctober2011-FEIST-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>F<\/strong><strong>EIST<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Metals<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Cherrytree\/Interscope]<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s Leslie Feist been up to since her 2007 album <em>The Reminder?<\/em> Breaking up, from the sound of things on her latest. These songs play like letters from a broken heart, delivered in the Canadian singer\u2019s typically understated style. Her drowsy voice\u2014which works so well on the lovely offhand pop numbers for which she\u2019s become known (\u201cMushaboom,\u201d \u201c1234\u201d)\u2014requires only a slight adjustment to sound wounded, as on \u201cHow Come You Never Go There,\u201d or searching, as on \u201cGraveyard,\u201d which builds into layers of voices repeating an aching refrain over spare electric guitar and funereal horns. She sighs gently on \u201cThe Circle Married the Line,\u201d and a chorus of male voices interrupts her breathy vocals to interject with the title of the jittery \u201cA Commotion.\u201d It would take a callous spirit to wish heartache on Feist, but whatever turmoil fueled these lovelorn songs has resulted in an album that\u2019s quietly edgier than any of her previous work. \u2013Eric R. Danton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FEIST Metals [Cherrytree\/Interscope] What\u2019s Leslie Feist been up to since her 2007 album The Reminder? Breaking up, from the sound of things on her latest. These songs play like letters from a broken heart, delivered in the Canadian singer\u2019s typically understated style. Her drowsy voice\u2014which works so well on the lovely offhand pop numbers for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,2627,907,1641,2628,2615],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4254"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4257,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254\/revisions\/4257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}