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Announcement of Feist’s new album Metals was preceded by few semi-cryptic videos and a play with colouring the b&w cover art with the right shades of white, grey, brown and black. How Come You Never Go There, the first full song out of Leslie Feist’s fourth full-length posses much more tones and variances of the same colour – calm and amusing ease. The relative simplicity of instrumentation reminds of her break-through Let It Die and the emphasis on the electric guitar brings to mind her contributions to Broken Social Scene’s records (most prominently her beautiful Lover’s Spit). Her vocals are even more relaxed than ever; Feist is obviously enjoying singing. It seems that she’s even closer to the jolliness of soul and relaxed phrasing of jazz. Still, Feist posses her own charm of casualty which is everything but not easy and ordinary. Despite the apparent calm, How Come You Never Go There is a pure entertainment with word-plays, most noticeably the word with homonyms and rhymes. However, the first song of Metals seems to be a grower: first few listens uncover just the comfort zones of Feist which we already know; the excitement of her new material is mostly caused by the fact it’s her. On the other side, can’t this be enough or maybe everything demanding listener may need? Joyful and sincer enjoyment of music in the most smart way? Metals is out on October 3rd.