From their cliff-top studio in the wilderness of Big Sur, California, Leslie Feist and collaborators including Canadian singer/ rappers Chilly Gonzales and Mocky witnessed March's Japanese tsunami complete its journey across the Pacific ocean.
"It was about five-feet high when it hit, and it was amazing to think how far it had travelled and how much destruction it had caused," the singer tells Q. "It really gives you a sense of the scale of these epic elemental forces."
The tsunami, the turbulent weather and the dramatic geography of Big Sur shaped an album that Feist describes as sounding: "Like the moment when the fog is rolling in, the portending of a storm."
Due for release on October 4, Metals is darker, bluesier and more challenging than the happy-clappy playschool pop of 2007's multi-million selling breakthrough The Reminder, the runaway success of which caused Feist to pull away from public life in 2009.
"It wasn't that I needed to curl up in a cave somewhere; I guess I just needed to catch up with normal life: cooking, seeing family, gardening, doing nothing," she tells Q. "I realised there was no way I could successfully be reactive to The Reminder this time, either by trying not to repeat myself or by making a facsimile. So I very selfishly decided to please myself."
Having done just that, Feist has been teasing her return via a series of gradually unlocking videos on Listentofeist.com. Here is tomorrow's (23 August) addition, Metals #9, exclusively on Qthemusic a day early.
A paint-by-numbers version of the album sleeve has been posted too, which fans must fill in themselves if they wish to see the finished thing.
Are they allowed to colour outside of the lines? "Oh yeah," says the singer. "I positively encourage it."
Metals tracklisting:
The Bad In Each Other
Graveyard
Caught A Long Wind
How Come You Never Go There
A Commotion
Bittersweet Melodies
Anti Pioneer
Undiscovered First
Cicadas And Gulls
Woe Be
Comfort Me
Get It Wrong, Get It Right
Dan Stubbs
12:36 PM | 22/08/2011
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