canadian artist Feist has released his new album which bears the title of Crowds, their sixth full-length album and first since 2017’s critically acclaimed album, pleasure.

It is a production which, he says, took shape shortly after the birth of her daughter and suddenly death of his father, a series of consecutive events that changed the life of the singer-songwriter with “nothing inside”.

As he tweaked his composition of any tendency to hide unwanted truths, Feist it slowly worked its way into a batch of songs based on raw, powerful realism, played with otherworldly beauty.

“The songs of Crowds, largely written and worked on during an intense show experimental community of the same name throughout 2021 and 2022, they have developed in parallel the mutuality of this unconventional experience and have been deeply influenced by it”, underlines their record company in a press release.

The production was developed by Feist, along with legendary designer Rob Sinclair, who worked with David Byrne, Peter Gabriel and Tame Impala on his CV, and with whom this work involved a subtle dramaturgical dismantling of normalized conventions between performer and observer.

Show your part live

The Scrapbook is accompanied by a live session premiering on YouTubetitled “Multitudes Mini Concert” and which includes songs like “The Redwing”, “Hiding Out In The Open” and “Love Who We Are Meant To”.

Crowds was recorded in a residential studio in California Redwoods, was produced by Feist with his former collaborators Robbie Lackritz (The Weather Station, Bahamas, Robbie Robertson) and Mocky (Jamie Lidell, Vulfpeck, Kelela), with additional production by Blake Mills (Bob Dylan, Fiona Apple, Perfume Genius) on “Borrow Trouble”, “I Took All My Rings Off”, “Of Womankind” and “Become the Earth”.

It also stands out that this was the first live show designed with immersive 360-degree sound built into the production. The album was also recorded with immersive sound engineered into its production – in pristine Dolby ATMOS audiophile quality, by producer and engineer Robby Lackritznominated for several grammys.

From punk to the best pop

Born in New Scotlandbut raised in CalgaryFeist first explored his idiosyncratic musicality while playing in a band punk local as a teenager and later debuted with monarch (Lay Your Jeweled Head Down) in 1999 (an independent version sold mainly on merchandising tables).

Later achieved great success with his second album, let him diewho won Alternative Album of the Year at the Juno Awards 2004). The reminder (2007), received international acclaim and was on Best Media of the Year lists as fork, NPR, spin And rolling rocksin addition to having obtained the Shorlist Music Prize 2007 and four award nominations grammys.

Already certified gold, the album includes her signature single “1234,” a chart-topping hit. Billboard Hot 100 which paved the way for Feist’s appearances on Saturday Night Live and Sesame Street.

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In 2011, Feist returned with Metalsa Polaris Music Prize-winning record, named album of the year by New York Times chief popular music critic Jon Pareles. pleasure (2017) called it “the boldest work to date” by AV club and as “heartbreakingly honest” by NPR, Feist went on to create the podcast studies of pleasure in 2019 – awarded “Podcast of the Year” by Apple Podcasts – and soon began developing the live show Multitudes, a boundary-pushing collaboration conceived by Feist and Robbie Lackritz and developed with artist and filmmaker Colby Richardson, artist Heather Goodchild and art producer Mary Hickson.

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