And the Hi there and welcome to So the Jaker on songwriting I'm Brian or at least I was the last time I checked and I'm here as always with Simon the Felix

on get my Oscar Madison. Joining us for episode 259 and our final pod of 2023 is a beguilingly voiced Juno Award winning singer-songwriter and

musician who first emerged on a native Canadian music scene in the late 90s.

She's collaborated with the likes of Peaches, Beck, Jarvis Cocker, Kings of Convenience, Jane Birken, Wilco, Ben Gibbud and

Chili Gonzalez, and in the spring of this year she dropped her tremendous sixth studio album Multitudes to rave reviews.

We are delighted to welcome the excellent Feist to the show.

I suppose given the time of year you could call this episode a Feist of Edition Simon.

I like it. Thank you. Our guest was born Leslie Feist in 1976 in Amherst, Nova Scotia.

Both her parents were of the creative persuasion. Her father Harold was an art

professor and abstract expressionist painter while her mother Lynn worked in ceramics.

Following her parents divorce shortly after she was born Leslie moved to

Saskatchewan with her mother later attending high school in Calgary.

She sang in school choirs from the age of six, but it was during her early adolescence that she truly caught the music bug,

experimenting with layered vocals and harmonies on the Tascan four-track

A-Dad had given her, attending local gigs and eventually becoming lead singer for a Calgary punk band

called placebo. Not the placebo you're thinking of.

Prunting a punk band took its toll on her vocal cords, however,

and a couple of years later, on Doctor's orders, Leslie was forced to stop singing for a lengthy period.

She put this in forced layoff to good use though, spending her down time teaching yourself guitar and bass. Leslie moved to Toronto in 1996, playing in various bands for the remainder of the decade and firmly establishing herself as a respected

member of the Canadian music community in the process. Adopting the stage name Feist, she released

her first solo album monarch in 1999, following which she worked with Electro-punk Artist Peaches, who was her roommate at the time,

before joining Indie Rock Collective Broken Social Scene as a vocalist in 2001,

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