Feist. Photo by Sarah Melvin and Colby Richardson
At long last, Feist is back. The Canadian singer-songwriter has announced a new album called Multitudes, her first since 2017’s Pleasure, and shared three new songs. Today, you can stream the tracks “In Lightning”, “Love Who We Are Meant To,” and “Hiding Out in The Open” before Multitudes drops on April 17 via Interscope.
A press release describes how the tracks of Multitudes were composed after Feist gave birth to her daughter and grieved her father’s death. The songs began their lives in an experimental show of the same name.
“The last few years were such a period of confrontation for me, and perhaps it felt that way to some degree for everyone,” Feist writes. “We confronted ourselves as much as our relationships confronted us. It felt like our relational ecosystems were clearer than ever and so whatever was normally obscured — like a certain way of avoiding conflict or a certain way of talking around the subject — were thrust into an unavoidable light. It became a chance to find footing on more honest ground when the effort to maintain altitude actually took more effort than just handing ourselves over to the truth.”
In September 2022, Feist dropped out of a tour with Arcade Fire after sexual misconduct allegations against frontman Win Butler surfaced. “We all have a story within a spectrum ranging from baseline toxic masculinity to pervasive misogyny to actually being physically, psychologically, emotionally or sexually assaulted,” Feist wrote. “It can be a lonely road to make sense of ill treatment. I can’t solve that by quitting, and I can’t solve it by staying. But I can’t continue.”
Stream “In Lightning”, “Love Who We Are Meant To,” and “Hiding Out in The Open” from Multitudes below.
