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Live Review: WATCH: Feist 'Bittersweet Melodies'

11 April 2012 | 2:30 pm | Hannah Story

Oh Leslie, we love you. Canadian indie-pop beauty, FEIST is back and cooing in our collective ears.

Oh Leslie, we love you. Canadian indie-pop beauty, FEIST is back and cooing in our collective ears. This time with ‘Bittersweet Melodies,’ a sweet little tune. This is one vocally and lyrically talented chick.

Have you ever decided to recreate the goofy pictures in which you posed as a kid? The images in the clip are from Argentinian photographer Irina Werning’s collection, Back To The Future where she gets her subjects to do just that: “When I fall in love with a picture I don’t stop until I have them in front of me dressed like this, doing what they were doing. I’m always amazed that they do it.” It’s kind of adorable and a perfect way to show off some sweet memories. Wish we could see some Feist baby-photos too though.

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Following the success of Let It Die and The Reminder comes 2011’s Metals, the album where this track belongs. She finished the lyrics and recorded some of the songs down in California’s Big Sur- a pretty cool country getaway: a place in which Jack Kerouac went mad and wrote a book in the ‘60s. Feist is a right-old beatnik.

Because we at PURPLE SNEAKERS fucking love fun facts, here’s some ‘did you knows’ about this indie darling:

-Ever since she was little, Feist has wanted to be a writer; who knew that would mean becoming an internationally-acclaimed singer-songwriter?

-Her first band, Placebo (not to be confused with British Placebo) opened for Radiohead in Canada in 1993.

-She’s really good friends with Peaches, to the extent that she used to work at her shows as sock puppeteer, ‘Bitch Lap Lap.’ And y’know also contributing back-up vocals, hanging out, licking bikes in video clips and touring with her dear friend.

-She taught kids how to count on Sesame Street and yeah, pops up on The Colbert Report’s first ever Christmas special.

-Finally, her songs have appeared in perfect indie films like Paris je t’aime and 500 Days of Summer.

Seriously. This girl has got it going on. 1, 2, 3, 4, we don’t know if we could love Feist more.

Keep your eyes open this Record Store Day for her split 7-inch with Mastodon. It should be glorious.

Words by Hannah Story.