Feist » Albums

The Reminder

Feist
The Reminder

12,621,420 plays (619,574 listeners)

47 shouts

Listening now: timekillz

Add to my Library Share
Buy at Amazon MP3 ($9.49) More options

albums i own, best of 2007, favorite albums, 2007, feist… see all

Play Feist Radio

Tracklist

    Track     Duration Listeners
1 Play My Moon My Man (Boys Noize Classic Mix) 6:40 15,753
2 Sealion (Chromeo Remix) 3:45 14,826

About this album

© Polydor Ltd. (2007) Released: 2 Apr 2007 2 tracks (10:25)
When Leslie Feist released her breakthrough Let It Die, almost instantly she became an indie icon. Her pretty, sometimes melancholic love songs, her clear, campfire voice, her vaguely jazz- and disco-influenced arrangements (highlighted no better than with her cover of the Bee Gees’ “Inside And Out”), and her association with darlings Broken Social Scene wooed critics and music fans alike. Her follow-up, The Reminder, will serve as proof that Feist’s success was no fluke, as the album contains more of the same sweet, introspective lyrics and chords that float around love and longing (or lack thereof) like cottonwood seeds in late spring. Because that’s what The Reminder, like Let It Die, is really: warm, lazy music made for those summer afternoons that creep into evening before you realize it. Feist’s voice is as cleanly emotive as ever as she sings lines like “There’s a limit to your love/Like a waterfall in slow motion” (from “The Limit to Your Love”), “Piecemeal can break your home in half/A love is not complete with only heat” (from “Intuition”), or “Put your weight against the door/Kick drum on the basement floor” (from the upbeat “I Feel It All”), confident but with a weakness, a fragility in it that comes out during the most sentimental lines. But this can also be a drawback. The singer can, at times, border on a kind of sappiness that seems better suited to Top 40 Matrix-produced pop songs than hipster-blog accolades. “We don’t need to fight and cry/We, we could hold each other tight tonight,” she breathes in the otherwise lovely “So Sorry,” whose puerile rhymes are fortunately held up by the track’s breezy sophistication.
Read more… Edit

Other releases from this artist

See more

Shouts

Leave a comment. Log in to Last.fm or sign up (it’s free).
See all 47 shouts

Listeners

See more

Recent Activity

Related Journals

See more
“Last.fm with the Less Fattening Centres.”

More Last.fm Sites: Blog | Music Manager | Build | Playground | Best of 2009

Popular on CBS sites: Fantasy Football | Madden NFL10 | PGA Championship | iPhone | Video Game Reviews | US Open | Antivirus Software

© 2010 Last.fm Ltd. All rights reserved. | Terms of Use and Privacy Policy | Updated November 21, 2008
Some user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
Text may also be available under the GNU Free Documentation License.