Originally released May 18, 2004

Reissued November 9, 2022

Arts & Crafts

1xLP

If you were unfamiliar with Feist's catalogue, and listened to Let It Die, you could easily mistake it for a late-career record, the type of album an artists makes after a certain restlessness permeates their creative process and they wish to strive outside of their comfort zone. Well, Let It Die was in fact Feist's sophomore effort, and the aforementioned restlessness must have come with a dissatisfaction with the type of music she was making in her post-Broken Social Scene days. In an effort to find herself, she waded through bossa nova, lounge- and chamber-pop, funk and the indie-folk she would settle on just one album later. And, roundly, she finds success in all those lanes. It's pretty wild to consider that in her formative years she was able to try her hand at so many things, do them well, then abandon them for a more conservative — albeit still brilliant — songwriting approach. I suppose those are the types of career moves you can make when you're among the best artists of your generation.