Concert Review: Feist and Juana Molina at Starlight, 7/13/08
Feist and Juana Molina
Date: July 13, 2008
Venue: Starlight Theatre
Better Than: International bootlegs of “The Sifl and Olly Show.”
By GRANT SNIDER
It’s not viral indie rock journalism that propelled Feist to stardom. It’s not her Canadian camaraderie with the art commune Broken Social Scene or the vulgar genius Peaches. It’s not even that damn iPod commercial you heard some fifth grader whistling a month after you bought The Reminder. It’s her voice. As a desperate-to-be-quoted friend remarked, “Feist has a voice that could save the NHL.”
Pontificate all you want about how she doesn’t even write all of her own songs (including the one in that commercial), and how the ones she does write can be the lyrical equivalent of a sugarcube marinated in syrup. But tear out a page from your favorite pop songbook and Feist will craft a cherubic arrangement, summon her seraphic vocal cords, and transubstantiate it into her own tune. Give her a guitar, and she can simultaneously raise hell.
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