Have we forgotten about in the age of ? No, we haven’t. It helps that Feist’s unique vision hardly ever repeats itself, as we learn via “Metals,” released last week.
“Metals” is the Canadian singer-songwriter’s moodiest record to date, a brooding experiment in melancholy and reflection. You can’t be surprised to hear that self-reflection in Feist’s lyrics, but it’s also there in the music on “Metals” — a far cry from the playful “1234” that made her a star via 2007’s “The Reminder.”
It’s not wrong to call it a downer of a record. But if you can handle Feist’s brand of weight that straddles the line between Joni Mitchell and Joanna Newsom, you’ll find some gems here — the chiming “The Circle Married the Line,” the peppermint-sweet “Cicadas and Gulls” and the emotional “The Bad in Each Other” included.
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Ricardo Baca is the founder and executive editor of , the co-founder of The UMS and an award-winning critic and journalist at The Denver Post.
