The Best Thing I Heard This Week-Feist

I picked up the new Feist record with some trepidation. While I'd always enjoyed a few singles ("Mushaboom", for sure), she'd never been able to hold my attention for a full album. Worse, her new record, Metals, was being given the dreaded "pretty ok, but not great" review by pretty much every outlet, ensuring a decent but sleepy record by a respected artist. So I was happily surprised when I found Metals to be not only engaging, but my favorite Feist record yet.

The Best Thing I Heard This Week-St. Vincent

If this isn’t the best record I hear this year, well then damn, somebody is going to be really outdoing themselves in the next few months. Because Annie Clark (St. Vincent) just plain laid it all out here. Strange Mercy is a scarred, yet respendently cathartic record, and an absolute joy to listen to. I thought it unlikely that she’d be able to top her fantastic 2009 record Actor, because that album is near-perfect, but Strange Mercy does just that, throwing out infectious hooks that you will be humming for the near future.

Volume 7: Cheerleader

I don't wanna be a cheerleader no more.