Nobody, least of all Feist, anticipated the response listeners around the world would have to her [first solo album] Let It Die. Awards were won. Her name appeared in Best of The Year lists. All of a sudden, a girl who was barely an unknown secret outside of Canada was very much on the global musical radar. Her response? To keep touring. Thirty-three months and three continents were covered. Her new album The Reminder was written and conceptualised on the way.
 
In the end recorded in just two weeks in a 200-year-old manor house on the outskirts of Paris, The Reminder demonstrates every facet of Feist – the punk kid from Calgary, the indie rock poster girl, the Parisian ex-pat. And of course the owner of an extraordinarily distinctive and evocative voice.
 
It’s hard not to be floored by the breadth and depth of the material on The Reminder. Brandy Alexander has a sucker-punch melody tumbling over a kick drum heartbeat. The shimmering The Water immerses Feist’s stunning vocals in layers of vibraphone and piano. With perennial collaborator Gonzalez, she came up with The Limit To Your Love in which Feist becomes Nico over hard-soul piano chords and Mo Tucker percussion. In some ways, The Reminder is more Feist than anything she’s done before, but don’t take our word for it; you need to hear it.