FEIST Announces Spring 2012 North American Tour with Philadelphia Performance at Academy of Music, May 8
FEBRUARY 1, 2012
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Feist will be returning stateside this spring to play a run of dates across the country in support of 2011 release, Metals, with
Metals ended 2011 on top of many ‘Best of 2011’ lists including Pitchfork, Spin, Rolling Stone and was chosen as the #1 Album of 2011 in the New York Times. Jon Pareles (New York Times) praised her “songs of heartache, solitude and eventual solace” as “…both handmade and subtly sophisticated…She traded pop gloss for pensive, lingeringly unresolved melodies and arrangements that crest unexpectedly from within, with her own taut electric guitar and apparitions of horns and voices summoning the tensions behind the beauty.”
Last month Feist received a nomination for the prestigious Brit Award (Grammy equivalent) for the 2012 “International Female Artist” prize.
Tickets for Feist range from $27.50 to $47.50, and are available by calling 215-893-1999, online at kimmelcenter.org or at the Kimmel Center Box Office located on Broad and Spruce streets,
Having gone underground for the past few years, Leslie Feist emerges with her stunning new album, Metals, the follow-up to her now classic albums Let It Die and The Reminder. Metals is an acutely observational collection that ranges from low, rumbling lyrics to moody ambiences to more brutally intense tracks.
Feist also debuts her new video for the single “The Bad In Each Other” off her critically-acclaimed album, Metals (Cherrytree/Interscope). Directed by Martin De Thurah (James Blake, Glasvegas), the video captures glimpses of something human. We get a peek inside something real between people - could be loss, longing or love - things which are about being a human being.
“The Bad In Each Other” video opens up more aspects than it concludes; possibly something one can't grasp, but it points at it or touches it and leaves the viewer with different kinds of emotions. Like a song or a poem, different people will connect to different things - and those might change from time to time when watching it.
“When I approached Martin to make a little film for this song, he told me he thought it sounded like a battle cry, and that he wondered about finding the little, tiny wars people experience in between the big dramas,” Feist tells SPIN.com. "I interpreted that to mean all the quiet internal battles that guide our actions; all the hopes and struggles we suppress or let carry us away. I feel like he's made a sort of symphony of In Betweens and stretched split seconds into feel-able, graspable echoes." Check out the video HERE.
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