'Resistance' by Marc Chagall.
Metals is the fourth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Feist. It was released on September 30, 2011 in Ireland, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden and Belgium; October 3, 2011 in the United Kingdom; and October 4, 2011 in the United States and Canada.[1][2][3] The first single from the album is "How Come You Never Go There", which was released on August 12, 2011.[4] The album is being supported by a world tour which started in Amsterdam, Netherlands on October 15, 2011 and will finish on October 20, 2012 in Santiago, Chile.[5][6]
Metals debuted on the US Billboard 200 at number 7, and sold 38,000 copies in its first week. It earned Feist's best sales week and it was her first top 10 chart in the US. The album received acclaim from critics.
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After touring for her previous album, The Reminder, Feist was "emotionally deaf".[10] She stopped playing music for two years,[10] saying that she "wasn't curious anymore".[11] In 2010, she went to the studio in Paris where she recorded The Reminder. After coming back from Paris six months later, she wrote most of the album.[12] For recording Metals, Feist went to Big Sur with the lyrics almost completed and set up an ad hoc recording studio.[12] Metals was recorded in Toronto and Big Sur, with collaborators including Chilly Gonzales, Mocky, Brian LeBarton, Dean Stone, and producer Valgeir Sigurðsson.[8][13] They began recording 'the album in January 2011. The album's title was partially inspired by Charles C. Mann's non-fiction book 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus.[12] She said of the recording process that "I allowed for mistakes more than I ever have, which end up not being mistakes when you open things up and make room for them."[14]
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For the album, Feist aimed for a sound she described as "modern ancient", mixing old and new instruments.[10] She stated that the album had "more chaos and movement and noise than I've had before." [14] The music of Metals is influenced by genres such as jazz and the blues.[15] The lyrics of Metals contain a lot of "nature imagery", as Feist was fascinated by the weather since "it makes you feel so minute."[11] They also contemplate topics such as dying love, mortality and solitude.[10] She also pointed to "Sealion" from The Reminder and said that it "grandfathered some of the concepts in Metals". There are many minor chords and open fifths on Metals, as well as a lot of voices sung in unison.[11] The songs "How Come You Never Go There" and "Anti-Pioneer" are ballads,[16][10] the latter she had worked on for ten years.[10]
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Why Resistance & not Resurrection? Because resistance to death in the forms of courage endurance creative rebellion is the closest we ever get to resurrection. Even if we & our good works & deeds are well remembered for millenia, ultimately all life returns to its source. Eternal Death? Yes. That. But also & always Love--from Everlasting to Everlasting. But answer me just one thing? Why do we run away from it sometimes so hard, so fast, as if time was ours forever?
Graveyard
The graveyard, the graveyard
All full of light the only age
The beating heart is empty of life
Dirt and grass the shadow hall
The moon sails past blood as ice is
An empty crisis lonely and last
Whoa-ah-ah-ah ah-ah
Bring them all back to life
Whoa-ah-ah-ah ah-ah
Bring them all back to life
Whoa-ah-ah-ah ah-ah
Bring them all back to life
Whoa-ah-ah-ah ah-ah
Bring them all back to life
Roots and lines, roots and lines
Our family tree is a home
From there we climb The Golden Hill
Call and they will eternally I held your hand
The giant wand alto low song and history
Begins to be blue and brown eyes
Whoa-ah-ah-ah ah-ah
Bring them all back to life
Whoa-ah-ah-ah ah-ah
Bring them all back to life
Whoa-ah-ah-ah ah-ah
Bring them all back to life
Whoa-ah-ah-ah ah-ah
Bring them all back to life
--song written by Leslie Feist
