Feist: Tiny Desk Concert

Stephen Thompson, July 24, 2024 Theres always been a disconnect between Leslie Feists music soothing, thoughtful, deliberately crafted and her warm, wryly funny personality. We got to witness both in her longawaited Tiny Desk debut, which finds her showcasing new and old material amid selfeffacing commentary on the pandemic, public speaking and her strange moment of realityTV fame. The great joke that will always remain about her song Hiding Out in the Open is that we ended up singing it to contestants on The Bachelor where true love rules all, of course, Feist said between songs. So singing truisms about eternal love to youth on a game show changed the context forever. Performing two songs from last years wonderful Multitudes (In Lightning and Hiding Out in the Open) and two songs from 2011s Metals (Caught a Long Wind and The Bad in Each Other), Feist was joined by a group of players and singers whove each performed notable work in their own right: Keyboardist