FEIST Releases New Single + Video for “Borrow Trouble”

FEIST RELEASES POIGNANT NEW SINGLE “BORROW TROUBLE”   NEW ALBUM MULTITUDES DUE APRIL 14   SPRING TOUR DATES ON SALE NOW   Watch the video for "Borrow Trouble" HERE     March 15, 2023 (Santa Monica, CA) — Today, 11-time Juno Award winner Feist releases the captivating new single “Borrow Trouble.” Listen HERE via Interscope Records. The latest cut from her forthcoming sixth album Multitudes (out April 14) is a multi-layered and deeply affecting rumination on the human condition. "Borrow Trouble" is accompanied by a kaleidoscopic music video, which riffs on the title of her new album. Watch it HERE.    "It happens at the break of day, before your wits are gathered, even before you are awake,” the alt-pop icon sings over gentle guitar strums and sparse percussion. "Put dissent into your ear, even before your eyes are open the plot has thickened round your fear.” The track really takes flight on the chorus, erupting with fuzzy strings and pulsating drumming as Feist dissects the hopes, doubts, and emotions that make us tick.    The video, which offers literal multitudes of the acclaimed singer-songwriter, is deceptively simple. In a rehearsal or recording space, Feist sings along to "Borrow Trouble" as a camera effect multiplies her every move. The performance and technology render her every twist and turn a layer in an ever-growing bloom of joyous movement. For a song — and project — deeply rooted in sheer wonder, the visual is suitably dazzling.   “’Borrow Trouble’ caused some trouble in trying to finish the recording,” comments Feist of the new single. “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 (the filmmaker), 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.”   "Borrow Trouble" follows closely on the heels of the album’s announcement, which was accompanied by three new songs — the soulful “In Lightning,” folky “Hiding Out in the Open,” and stripped-down “Love Who We Meant To.” "The songs move in different directions, but they’re all very recognizably Feist," Stereogum wrote of her new music. That sentiment was echoed by Brooklyn Vegan, who praised the artist for making "vital music 20 years into her career, aways branching out, trying new things while still only sounding like herself."    Multitudes started taking shape after the birth of Feist’s daughter and the sudden loss of her father. Amid meditations on mortality, healing and the passing seasons of life, the project ultimately radiates hope. Soon, the Canadian will bring her new batch of songs to fans on a spring tour that kicks off in Madison, WI on May 2 and then crisscrosses North America, before winding up in Montreal, QC on May 19. Get tickets HERE.   Feist – 2023 Multitudes U.S. Tour 5/2 Madison, WI The Sylvee 5/3 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue 5/5 Chicago, IL Radius 5/6 St. Louis, MO The Pageant 5/7 Nashville, TN Brooklyn Bowl 5/9 Atlanta, GA Coca-Cola Roxy Theatre 5/10 Raleigh, NC The Ritz 5/12 Washington, DC 9:30 Club 5/13 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Steel 5/14 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Steel 5/15 Philadelphia, PA The Fillmore 5/17 Boston, MA MGM Music Hall at Fenway 5/18 Toronto, ON HISTORY 5/19 Montréal, QC MTelus 7/11 Halifax, NS Halifax Jazz Festival   About Feist Leslie Feist is an 11-time Juno Award-winning solo artist and founding member of Broken Social Scene. Born in Nova Scotia but mostly raised in Calgary, she first explored her idiosyncratic musicality by playing in a local punk band as a teen and made her recording debut with the 1999 independent release Monarch (Lay Your Jewelled Head Down). Following the breakout success of her sophomore album, Let It Die, she went on to achieve international acclaim with 2007’s Gold-certified The Reminder, which won the 2007 Shortlist Music Prize and earned four GRAMMY® Award nominations. The Reminder delivered one of the most indelible songs of the 2000s – “1234,” a Billboard Hot 100-charting hit. 2011’s Metals was hailed as the album of the year by The New York Times’ Jon Pareles and won the 2012 Polaris Music Prize. In 2017, Feist released the critically acclaimed Pleasure, accompanied by the storytelling podcast series “Pleasure Studies,” which was named "Podcast of the Year" by Apple Podcasts.   (Photo Credit: Sara Melvin & Colby Richardson)   Feist - “Borrow Trouble”  Retail: https://interscope.lnk.to/BorrowTrouble Amazon Unlimited: https://interscope.lnk.to/BorrowTrouble/AmazonMusic Apple Music: https://interscope.lnk.to/BorrowTrouble/AppleMusic Deezer: https://interscope.lnk.to/BorrowTrouble/Deezer iTunes: https://interscope.lnk.to/BorrowTrouble/iTunes Pandora: https://interscope.lnk.to/BorrowTrouble/Pandora SoundCloud: https://interscope.lnk.to/BorrowTrouble/SoundCloud Spotify: https://interscope.lnk.to/BorrowTrouble/Spotify Tidal: https://interscope.lnk.to/BorrowTrouble/Tidal YouTube Music: https://interscope.lnk.to/BorrowTrouble/youtubemusic Official Video: https://Interscope.lnk.to/BorrowTroubleVideo