On her latest album Pleasure Leslie Feist showed that she was still exploring her musical boundaries, an introspective album but also one that underpins her self-assurance. There are strong and moving moments throughout the album where she uses that fragility in her voice to create spinetingling moments such as A Man is Not his Song.
One of the most rock-orientated and more daring moments comes with Century on which she’s more reminiscent of PJ Harvey. The album features a spoken word outro from Jarvis Cocker but in her recent Late Show performance those shoes were filled by the host Stephen Colbert. He did well to remember how long a century is…
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