Feist

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

Pushkin Industries

Music, Society & Culture

4.5 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Canadian-born singer/songwriter Feist has been one of the most dynamic indie voices of the last two decades. Last month she released her sixth album, Multitudes. She recorded it in the aftermath of tremendous personal loss and change. In late 2019 Feist adopted a baby just months before the pandemic started. About a year later, her father died suddenly. Multitudes is a raw, intimate look at how she grappled with deep-seated grief and a new kind of love.

On today’s episode Leah Rose talks with Feist about how being assaulted in high school ultimately led to her gaining resilience. Feist also remembers the day her music career began when was asked to front a hardcore punk band, and how screaming on stage–and ultimately blowing out her voice–forced her to develop her intimate, career-defining singing style.

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0:00.0	Pushkin
0:11.2	Canadian-born singer-songwriter Feist has been one of the most dynamic indie voices of the last two decades.
0:18.2	She scored international fame early in her career thanks in part to a nano-ipod commercial featuring the song 1-2-3-4.
0:26.6	But for fans of Feist, her appeal lies in how she minds her complex emotional life.
0:32.5	Just last month, Feist released her sixth album, Multitudes.
0:36.9	She recorded it in the aftermath of tremendous personal loss and change.
0:42.0	In late 2019, Feist adopted a baby just months before the pandemic started.
0:47.3	About a year later, her father died suddenly.
0:50.8	Multitudes is a raw and intimate look at how she grappled with deep-seated grief and a new kind of love.
0:58.2	On today's episode, Leo Rose talks with Feist about how being assaulted in high school ultimately led to her gaining resilience.
1:06.7	Feist also remembers the day her music career began when she was asked to front a hardcore band.
1:12.3	In how screaming on stage and ultimately blowing out her voice forced her to develop her intimate career defining singing style.
1:21.7	This is Broken Record. Liner notes for the digital age. I'm Justin Mischman.
1:26.7	Here's Leo Rose with Feist.
1:29.7	I have read the PR blurb about the new album, but I would love to hear in your words just talk about how the project started to come together.
1:40.7	Yes, well, everything was pretty topsy-turvy there, wasn't it?
1:46.7	There was a complete reframe. There was no presumption of the way things used to be, as the way they're going to be.
1:53.7	Interestingly, the outside world was echoing what was going on for me in my inside world, which was that nothing was to be presumed nothing that had been was going to be because I had just become a mother right four months before the pandemic started.
2:09.7	It was a double down of complete reassessment and a friend of mine said something that has become unfortunately so true.
2:19.7	Fortunately, to become a parent is to be incinerated.
2:27.7	But who rises from the ashes is a more interesting person to be for the rest of your life.
2:33.7	I'm still working on that. I'm trying to figure out if this is more interesting.
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