New Feist - "I Feel It All (Britt From Spoon Remix)"
Feist's "I Feel It All" single comes stacked with a few instances of the ultimate promotional tool: the remix. Fair enough, some of you were getting a little restless at the remix glut after we took a listen to Grizzly Bear's stabs and flourishes at the track, but it's worth noting that Chilly Gonzales and Britt sort of kill it. Gonzales's version is a total track transformation (think sexy, dusky, dancefloor). And as mentioned, Britt adds to the track by cutting stuff away, reforming Leslie's rollicking roots rock tune by sculpting it in his own band's image. The result is as spare and lean as a Spoon track with no guitars necessary: just a taut thwumping bass line, a tambourine, and a rising and ebbing and echoing Feist vocal. Nice job, Britt From Spoon.
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Comments (11) latest by Sir Terrence Tuppins
like many remixes, gonzales' remix is far from my taste, but i am LOVING britt's mix. the song wears it well.
Posted by: annie onymous at February 22, 2008 5:13 PM | ReplyScore = 0
actually my favorite remix on the single is the grizzly bear one. It hits hard.
Posted by: kalua at February 22, 2008 5:14 PM | ReplyScore = 0
hell yea @ that bass line
Posted by: johny at February 22, 2008 5:21 PM | ReplyScore = 0
Not to be a naysayer, but I'm not digging any of these. They're not terrible, but I'd just prefer to listen to the original.
Posted by: Lock at February 22, 2008 5:51 PM | ReplyScore = 0
Everything this man touches turns to solid gold.
Posted by: Erin at February 22, 2008 9:37 PM | ReplyScore = 0
Eh. Meh. Neh. Nah. Nap.
Most overrated, this is.
Gimme Fiction?
No.
Gimme a Jim Eno remix of a Feist tune. Or anyone's tune for that matter, dag-nabbit.
Truly, this man is the architect-of-sound/secret weapon to what is an otherwise run-of-the-mill, ice cream scoop-of-the-month indie rock band.
You know it.
Kneel before Zod, already.
PS...Any truth to the rumors of Britt Daniel playing the lead role in that new "Footloose" remake?
Posted by: Sir Terrence Tuppins at February 23, 2008 3:15 AM | ReplyScore = 0
Yeah, you're right... it's all Jim. Britt just, you know, writes all the songs...
Posted by: Andrew at February 23, 2008 10:20 AM | ReplyScore = 1
Not to depreciate Jim's contribution but, seriously...
Posted by: Andrew at February 23, 2008 10:27 AM | ReplyScore = 0
Where are the hand claps? And the ironic horn vamps? That was not nearly Spoony enough...
Posted by: Pandyora at February 23, 2008 1:31 PM | ReplyScore = 0
All about Feist:
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RE: Andrew:
One person writes the songs, the other produces and engineers them; giving the other person's songs a shoeshine. Possibly also works on the musical arrangements of the other person's songs.
Anyone can do remixes these days. Especially with the various readily-accessible technologies.
And while I'm admittedly making a very biased generalization here, more often than not it seems that producers, engineers and arrangers have the capability of creating remixes that are more interesting than what others might come up with.
In this particular instance - and while under the influence of what Sir Macca refers to as an "herbal jazz cigarette" - I suggested that the person responsible for Spoon's sound/production value may have offered up (what is to my ears) a more interesting-sounding Feist remix than that of the Spoon's vocalist/songwriter.
For want of a better analogy, who do you think may have come up with a better remix:
The singer known as Ms. Veronica Yvette Bennett (AKA Ronnie Spector) or that gun-toting, coke-snorting, Manischewitz-guzzling, wig-wearing debonair sex fiend dude with a lisp that we all love, Mr. Phil Spector?
Singing, "Love is like an itchin' in my heart, tearing us apart, I could pay to have, have all your cherry bomb...and I can't stand it."
Can someone out there please make a Supremes/Spoon mashup before the week's over?
Posted by: Sir Terrence Tuppins at February 25, 2008 10:16 AM | ReplyScore = 0