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Jazz-influenced and classically schooled, Feist possesses a voice with a distinctive intimacy often lacking in trained singers. This warmth complements the well-orchestrated compositions on LET IT DIE with an almost voyeuristic atmosphere, akin to hearing someone singing herself to sleep. On the bluesy spiritual "Lonely Lonely," rhythmic handclaps and sparsely picked guitar accompany Feist's haunting lilt, invoking the ghosts of Appalachia, while the Bee Gees' "Love You Inside Out" (here titled "Inside and Out") is set to an up-tempo disco beat. Feist's vocal agility enables her to sing straight French cabaret on "Tout Doucement" and smooth, soulful jazz on "Gatekeeper." The song that will make the tears fall, though, is the 1930s-esque, cinematic piano ballad "Now at Last," in which Feist dreamily sings "What makes winters lonely?/Now at last I know."
A longtime presence in the Canadian music scene, Leslie Feist contributed her breathy, expressive alto voice to releases by a diverse range of artists, including Peaches, Broken Social Scene, and the Norwegian duo Kings of Convenience. However, on Feist's solo debut, this talented singer/songwriter comes into her own with stories of love and light, and a melancholy kind of beauty not immediately apparent by the album's cryptic title, LET IT DIE.
Leslie Fiest Is Member Of Broken Social Scene.
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Entertainment Weekly (No. 819, p.88) - "Sly folkie, slow-jazz seductress, sparkling pop pixie--[Feist's] kaleidoscopic talents shift almost as constantly as her attention..." - Grade: A-
CMJ (No. 910, p.4) - "[Feist] makes lovely music stripped of trends and obvious cues, channeling dashes of Billie Holiday and all that old-school jazz..." Let It Die Music | List Price | $9.95 (You save $1.46) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Rock CDs | | Label | Interscope | | Orig Year | 2005 | | All Time Sales Rank |  3155  | | CD Universe Part number | 6853202 | | Catalog number | 000444202 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Apr 26, 2005 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Renaud Letang; Gonzales | | Personnel | Feist - vocals
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Let It Die Music Review Average Rating: (4.2 out of 5 stars)   SWANKY!
THIS IS A SWANKY, GROOVEY COOL ALBUM!! I ENJOY LISTENING TO IT OVER AN OVER AGAIN.
Submitted by TREVIS.GENEREUX (BECKER, MN USA) 
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 Great new artist! A must to listen to.
This cd is wonderful! Full of rich vocals and beautiful lyrics. I had heard only one song "Lonely, Lonely" and knew I had to hear more. This is not only a great cd , but a fun artist to see live, too.
Submitted by elenarodriguez (San Rafael, CA, USA)
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Inspired, Keeps you warm on a cold night!
Music that could be the soundtrack to your best dreams! Fiest's vocals compliment the music beautifully, the lyrics are smart and addictive. Some of the most indepth,inviting music I've heard since Ms. Fitzgerald... keeps you company when you're all alone!
Submitted by evarett (Ontario, Canada)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No Wonderful Vocals
Feist has a truly beautiful and soothing voice...it's almost as if she trying to get me to fall asleep! There is a great variety of styles on this album, from jazz to funk, but Feist is able to pull it all off. It's a great buy, you won't regret it, especially if you're looking for something interesting to listen to for a change.
Submitted by Anita (Burke, VA, USA)
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This is basically Feists comeback after she blew her vocals out. This album carries a lot of styles, a bit of jazz, folk and pop; pleasing to anyones ears. The only strange thing that I've noticed is that the American release has a different french song (Tout Doucement) than the Canadian release (L'amour Ne Dure Pas Toujours). I prefer the french song on the Canadian release more.
Submitted by Toma (Canada)
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Favorably compared to the Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, and Broken Social Scene, the Arcade Fire's sound seems to come from a lifetime of listening to the Cure, Talking Heads, Elvis Costello, and many others--even a dose of soul gets worked into these grand anthems. Chassagne delivers some spellbinding vocals on "Haiti," while the tinkling piano and strings on "Crown of Love" conjure up a heartbroken surfside prom. In 2004, this made many critics' year-end lists, and it's no wonder--the songs on FUNERAL are so packed with unique instrumentation, mesmerizing build-ups, and galvanizing tempo changes that they seem culled from some enigmatic, decade-spanning rock anthology.
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Capitalizing on the success of her 2004 solo release, LET IT DIE, Fiest released OPEN SEASON in 2006, a collection of remixes and collaborations. OPEN SEASON takes the breezy, jazzy, understated songs from LET IT DIE and moves them in several new directions, creating an experience that is more varied and just as arresting as its predecessor.
It doesn't hurt that Fiest is well liked in the music scene (she counts Peaches and Broken Social Scene among her fans and cohorts), and it's this status that gives the remixes on OPEN SEASON their high-caliber pedigree. Ben Gibbard and the Postal Service lend pulsing synths to one of several takes on "Mushaboom," for example, while the production team W turns "One Evening" ...
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On the opening "Sleeping Lessons," woozy keyboard lines and the wavering vocals of frontman James Mercer immediately announce WINCING as a departure, but slowly the drifting atmospherics give way to a guitar-driven rave-up. Much of the record echoes this more expansive sound, with the shimmering "Phantom Limb" hitting ...
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Canadian singer-songwriter Leslie Feist first gained prominence working with the Montreal shock-rapper Peaches and later the Toronto-based collective Broken Social Scene, but with the release of 2004's masterful LET IT DIE, she embarked on a solo career that quickly eclipsed her previous work. Following the pleasant but inessential remix album OPEN SEASON, 2007's THE REMINDER is Feist's true follow-up to LET IT DIE, and it deepens and solidifies that album's strengths. Combining jazzy torch songs with acoustic, folkish ballads, THE REMINDER is as quietly powerful as her Broken Social Scene bandmate Emily Haines's equally subdued solo debut, KNIVES DON'T HAVE YOUR BACK, but with a jazzy edge that recalls Nina Simone on tunes ...
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I have been playing guitar and writing music since I was a teenager, but I didn’t really find my niche until I became a father. It seemed like every day there was something interesting, or amazing, or hilarious to write about as our children grew. Then as I started to take my music to school and with every visit there was something that happened that made me laugh or made me wonder. In all the years I have been performing my music I have been intrigued by the questions children ask and the things that they find amazing. That sense of wonder is a wonderful thing and it is surely what opens doors and sets our paths as we rumble through our lives. I have tried to capture that sense of wonder in this my second CD, Do you wonder, too?My real job, (my paying job), is in medicine. I am a plastic surgeon by day, and sometimes by night in the emergency room or operating room. It is a specialty in medicine that allows the blending of art and science every day and I really like that. It can be stressing, and that is where music comes in for me. It is a great stress buster and it lets me exercise areas in my brain that plastic surgeons don’t use on the job, unless I’m singing in the OR.Do you wonder,too? and my first CD Isn’t it Incredible? contain 25 songs that are about a lot of the things you and your children have done, or learned together or wondered about. I have tried to record music that won’t drive you crazy the tenth time you hear it, but I do hope you hear it that many times or more. Mostly ...
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