Being V-Day today, looks like a big day for a big release for the one and only Feist.
Today she dropped three tracks from the long awaited album Multitudes (where she performed the materials during a small intimate tour in 2021) which comes out on April 14, 2023 via Universal Music Canada.
About the tracks by Feist:
“In Lightning” opens the album with its glorious collision of clattering percussion, explosive guitar and brightly fluttering strings (courtesy of string arranger Miguel Atwood-Ferguson). Feist shuts out the modern world’s incessant buzz to charge the listener with the electrifying dare to look themselves straight in the eye to find something infinitely more elemental and personal than what the mirror reveals (“And in lighting flashes flash to show our natural age/And the lightning lights me up to be as God as I say”).
Far more fragile in delivery but no less powerful in impact is the ageless sentiment of “Love Who We Are Meant To” which, with its cascading pattern of solo nylon string guitar against lush orchestral swells, conveys a jazz standard’s wide-angle lens on a delicate quagmire and presents Feist’s heavy-hearted revelation (“We will struggle with the truth/That sometimes we don’t get to/Love who we are meant to”).
On “Hiding Out In The Open” Feist’s hypnotically layered vocals sing in the round, presenting another piece of incandescent wisdom (“Love is not a thing you try to do/It wants to be the thing compelling you/To be you”) with the simple and open hearted cadence of a campfire sing along.
In Lighting gets: 📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷/10.
Love Who We Are Meant To gets: 📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷/10.
Hiding Out In The Open gets: 📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷/10.
Feist Drops 3 Multitudes Tracks
