Feist

Eye to eye and ear to ear, Let It Die is very much a voice album in close up. Carefully pieced together around timelessly simple melodies, the album forms the missing link between ye old folk (storytelling,) the Brill building era (the quest for the hook,) doo-wop (melody and minor key moods) and minimal modern pop arrangements.

"As it's bedrock, there remains that voice: an instrument whose arcs, swoops, cracks and surges hint at the heartache, but whose essential reserve is, ironically, its most potent weapon." LONDON SUNDAY TIMES JAN '05... more