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MacKenzie Wilson, All Music Guide
Somewhere in between living with Peaches, playing guitar with By Divine Right, rapping with Chilly Gonzales, and singing with Broken Social Scene and Apostle of Hustle, Canadian songstress Feist started a solo career. Following up 1999's self-released Monarch, Let It Die was recorded in Paris between 2002 and 2003. The romance of the City of Lights glows throughout as a combination of folk, bossa nova, jazz-pop, and indie rock finds its place among the 11-track song list. She'll woo you with her sultry vocals throughout, a delicate and sweet voice that feels cozy. From the warm shimmy and shake of "Gatekeeper" and "Mushaboom" to the classy R&B grooves of "One Evening" and "Leisure Suite," Feist explores various musical worlds without getting lost. She reels you into different soundscapes and it's an exciting adventure. Dare yourself to imagine Patrice Rushen, Ivy's Dominique Durand, and Astrud Gilberto in a group, and that's basically the beginning threads of Let It Die. Feist never holds back sonically or musically; however, Let It Die isn't an extravagant first album. She's playful with her design and the overall composition flows nicely. Feist has varied styles and sounds just right, and that's what makes Let It Die the secret treasure that it is. Her rendition of Ron Sexsmith's "Secret Heart" is a cinematic outing for a dewy spring day. The Bee Gees' "Inside and Out" gets a foxy makeover for what is probably the album's finest moment. Feist's soft touch makes magic on these particular covers, and the bittersweet loveliness of Blossom Dearie's "Now at Last" ties it all together to make Let It Die a storybook romance.
Critic Blurbs
"Monday, October 17, 2005, Danforth Music Hall, Toronto. The Canadian born singer-songwriter-guitarist, who beguiled an audience of just over 1,100 on Monday night at the Danforth Music Hall during the first of two sold out shows, is hard to pin down as an artist. And that, frankly, is a large part of her charm. She's a true original. .."
- Jane Stevenson--Toronto Sun | Oct 19, 2005
"The 29-year-old singer-songwriter, whose first name is Leslie, was born in Amherst, N.S., but spent her childhood in Regina and Calgary before moving to Toronto -- where she spent six years -- and eventually Paris, where she recorded her breakthrough sophomore solo disc, 2004's "Let It Die"..."
Oct 17, 2005
"With that wondrous title track -- I've had the chorus in my head on and off so much of the past year that it's really just like coming home -- I feel like I could just melt and turn this review into a love poem."
- Willcoma | Aug 9, 2005
"Feist’s Let It Die isn’t about to change the world, or pull up the people, and it might not even save your life. It’s mood music, sure, but more specifically dinner music—really romantic dinner music."
- Josh Timmermann | Aug 1, 2005
"The great thing is that the diversity of the album makes it appropriate for so many situations and occasions."
- Robert Ferdman | Jun 17, 2005
"Eleven sensual spirituals meant for those lounge-dwelling existentialist souls."
- Kenneth Yu | May 11, 2005
"Though much of the record might sound a tad slick upon first listen, there's an edge to Feist's voice and lyrics that prevents it from falling into the adult contemporary ghetto."
- Tyler Wilcox | Apr 28, 2005
Nearly five years removed from that debut, Let It Die finds Feist in a radically different state of mind, completely abandoning her guitars-and-strings indie rock shorthand in favor of folk, jazz, French pop and disco accoutrements.
- Mark Pytlik | Jul 14, 2004
Feist is clearly a gifted songwriter with an flair for melody and a sense for atmosphere that lesser artists can only dream of.
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