Have you got a key?
Unlock the lock
Inside of me
Where will you go
To keep yourself afloat?
Feeling old
Until the wing
Unfolded
Caught me a long wind
Where will we go
To keep ourselves afloat?
I caught a long wind
A long life wind
I got to know the sky
But it didn't know me
I got to see the land
And land on top of the sea
And be the bird and be the key
And the current tells
What the wave withheld
And the lightning sang
Of where the light would land
Where will you go
To keep yourself afloat?
I caught a long wind
A long life wind
Like a swallow
A night owl
A little chickadee
Sad sparrow
Good morning bird
Good nightingale
I took a deep breath
And caught a long wind
Leslie Feist (born February 13, 1976), known mononymously as Feist, is a Canadian and American indie pop singer-songwriter and guitarist, performing both as a solo artist and as a member of the indie rock group Broken Social Scene.
Feist launched her solo music career in 1999 with the release of Monarch. Her subsequent studio albums, Let It Die, released in 2004, and The Reminder, released in 2007, were critically acclaimed and commercially successful, selling over 2.5 million copies. The Reminder earned Feist four Grammy nominations, including a nomination for Best New Artist. She has received 11 Juno Awards, including two Artist of the Year. Her fourth studio album, Metals, was released in 2011. In 2012, Feist collaborated on a split EP with metal group Mastodon, releasing an interactive music video in the process.
She has released six studio albums as of 2023, Feist received three Juno awards at the 2012 ceremony: Artist of the Year, Adult Alternative Album of the Year for Metals, and Music DVD of the Year for her documentary Look at What the Light Did Now., additionally she was nominated for four Grammy Awards including Best Pop Vocal Album for The Reminder and Best New Artist.
(Chill Set features 45 others from Morcheeba, Air, Nellie McKay, Radiohead, Joan Baez, Hooverphonic, KT Tunstall, Kate Bush, Lisa Hannigan, Nick Drake, Mazzy Star, Zero 7, and Pascal Rogé.)
She's the real deal.
Every song played here is loved by someone, more than likely a lot of folks. Nearly every song here is "critically acclaimed", for whatever that is worth (nothing much, in my estimation). We are all critics here, even if you never make a comment. Let's say you never even buy a CD. That's a choice you are making, you are starving all kinds of musicians when you do that, if everyone did that. I'd say that's a lot worse than a negative comment. The worst thing you can do to an artist is ignore them. Commenting on art is almost always going to be negative. It is much much easier to point out flaws than to point out perfections. In fact, if something is perfect, what can you say about it, other than it is perfect? That's banal. So, the point is not to be banal. It's a worthy aspiration in my opinion. Think of the egotism involved in a musician putting out a CD for people to listen to. It is an artist saying: "I am so good, you should listen to my creative efforts, and also pay for it". Well, OK, I say, and in this little deal we have made, part of the bargain is that I am going to tell you the truth as to how I feel about it; and this comment board is the place to do it.
Well resolved.
Nice to see that the usual standards of incisive and thoughtful commentary on RP boards are being maintained... ;-|
Feist gives me goosepimples, but even if she bored the crap out of me I'd never describe her as "crap" as she can plainly sing and write her own material. A woman to be looked up to. 8 from the newly-smitted Nottingham jury.
This gets said a lot of almost every female singer on RP, however as a big KB fan myself, I have to agree this time. Vocally, she does sound a lot like Kate did in the 1990s or so, (though Kate's musical style and vocal tone has changed in recent years).
Record companies are not risk takers, so I am never surprised by new bands/singers that sound like a previous hitmaker. I prefer to judge a band/singer by what they bring to the table OTHER than that they sound like Kate Bush, Led Zeppelin, or ...
Ms Feist has a powerful voice.