Feist: She's Good for You
Want a good way to start your Memorial Day weekend? Hop in the hot rod, beeline for your favorite record emporium and buy Feist's The Reminder. It's relaxing, it's sexy, it's smart -- it'll get you centered and make your brain sigh. I also recommend zipping to the grocery store and picking up 3 lbs. of snow crab legs and a six-pack of Tecate. Then go home, eat, drink, listen. It's a holiday. Live it up.
Feist
Album: The Reminder (Cherrytree/Interscope)
In stores: Now
Why we care: This Canadian indie fave (born Leslie Feist) started as a punker, a rocker and a constant presence on best-of lists in Rolling Stone and the New York Times. At 31, she is now a pop-folker and a torch-crooner and another shoo-in for year-end huzzahs.
Why we like it: Feist sings as if she, too, is just discovering the power of her voice, which hovers between the preciousness of Sarah McLachlan and the sturdiness of Ani DiFranco. She likes to paint her spare but plucky songs with hard guitar lines, robotic burbles, cool jazz currents -- just to make sure everyone's still paying attention.
Reminds us of: Norah Jones with brass knuckles.
Download these: So Sorry, Feel It All, 1234 and Brandy Alexander
Grade: B+
Sean Daly is the pop music critic for the St. Petersburg Times. His CD collection -- from Journey to Dylan, Prince to U2, Public Enemy to Stan Getz -- is much bigger and better than yours.
Nice job trashing Wilco's latest - Sky Blue Sky - currently the number four best selling album. Guess there are a lot of thirty-something males with no health insurance! You may want to focus less on talentless and unimaginative American Idol and explore bands and individuals that take chances with their music. Just a thought.
Posted by: Dumbfounded in St.Pete | May 26, 2007 at 11:27 AM
I didn't trash Wilco's latest, Dumb in St. Pete.
Did you even read the review?
And you're posting under an entry honoring an woman who takes chances with her music.
Wow, great take.
Posted by: Sean Daly | May 27, 2007 at 09:29 AM