Feist by Sarah Melvin & Colby Richardson
Feist’s sixth album was unveiled last month.
Feist is streaming her new single Borrow Trouble ahead of the release of Multitudes on April 14th.
“Borrow Trouble caused some trouble in trying to finish the recording,” she’s said. “It began as a contemplative acoustic morality tale and shape shifted itself into the sound of trouble itself.”
It’s a mess that holds its own logic. It’s the convincing cacophony that thoughts can be. It saws away at you until your overwhelm pops an air supply in the form of another idea, a solution that starts with accepting there’s no such thing as perfection.
“Mike Mills directed me deeper into the tangle, insisted I play drums ‘because you’re not a drummer!’ and Amir Yaghmai brought the fist pumping drone of violins.”
“Early on, when I was writing it Charles Spearin said ‘yah but what does borrowing trouble mean?’ And I said, ‘It’s an expression from the old days’, which became the chorus. May as well let the song explain, like I’m doing now.”
