★★★★★
"So much past inside my present," it turns out, is the one-liner from Feist's wildly popular album The Reminder that has stuck around. What seemed like just one of many quaint choruses on an album full of them four years ago now hovers and looms over Metals, the new album from Feist. If Feist has rejected anything from her past fame it's that she's no longer very interested in being adorable...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
While Metals, Leslie Feist's fourth full-length album, lacks the playfulness and élan of 2007's The Reminder, which gave us "1234" and "I Feel It All," it may actually be a far more precious document. Where those songs represented the buoyant marriage of indie sensibilities and a sweet pop tooth, Metals lacks any one track that provides that frisson of sheer pleasure provided by bubble gum with indie cred...
- www.austinchronicle.com
2012-01-02
★★★★★
It's so exciting to watch a much-loved artist grow and develop and successfully explore new directions. Feist's fourth album Metals stands on the shoulders of all her previous work, striving to new heights while still retaining what made her special in the earliest days of her career. This is an album that demands your attention at the first moment, opening with a percussive lament for a lost relationship, a stonking bass drum pounding away at a grief-stricken sorrow...
- www.undertheradar.co.nz
2011-12-13
★★★★★
During her days with Broken Social Scene, Leslie Feist's voice was the brilliant change of pace, change of tone, change of breathy beauty that gorgeously delivered magnificent moments. The band was at its finest when everyone's singular traits were called upon for equally singular moments that couldn't be matched by anyone else. Feist's vocals - her delivery, her channeling of great vocalists, her unique attack and release - were always intriguing, let alone beguiling...
- www.adequacy.net
2011-12-01
★★★★★
Summary: Wear walking shoes. Leslie Feist's response to her brief stint as world dominator is a predictably "uncommercial" affair, forgoing the buoyancy of the excellent (if overpraised) The Reminder for a more dirt-inflected sound. Which might sound like an overly facile grab at authenticity in somebody else's hands, but Metals affects with - get this - its sentiency. Yes, an album that is more consciously intimate than its predecessor also feels more comprehensively alive...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2011-11-03
★★★★★
Release Date: October 4, 2011 Leslie Feist, as a musician, has gained a lot of commercial success. Her music has been used to promote various products, and it's almost certain that people will remember her brightly coloured and fun video for her hit "1, 2, 3, 4", a video that seemed to draw focus more to the glitzy outfits and dance routines than the song itself. With Metals as a whole, we see a much deeper and interesting side to Feist...
- absolutepunk.net
2011-10-31
★★★★★
Release Date: October 4, 2011 As Leslie Feist explains in an NPR interview, she chose the title Metals because it "can be found unforged and raw and molten in the center of the earth, but they can also be highly refined and turned into little tiny jewelry." These contrasting images capture the feel of Metals that at once feels finely honed but still holds the ability to pierce. The first track does not ease the listener into the album...
- absolutepunk.net
2011-10-31
★★★★★
Feist once evoked all the distress of a sunflower on a spring day. Her music not only accepted heteronormative standards, but simplified them; courtship was as easy as "1 2 3 4 / Tell me that you love me more," and "courtship" was still a word used. Probably...
- www.cokemachineglow.com
2011-10-27
★★★★★
She"s the one who did that iPod ad ("1234"). She also wrote that plinky-plonky song found playing beneath the opening The Inbetweeners scene ("I Feel It All"). And even James Blake plumped a pouty take on "Limit To Your Love" out the arse-end of 2010.
- www.nme.com
2011-10-24
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