This is an album from another artist in my "cohort" when I was doing the solo album month challenge. It's pretty pleasant to listen to.
Been a Feist fan for a long time but just stumbled upon Undiscovered First from the Basement. Or if you have more time, for a 26 minute mini concert from some house in France, which has a great segue 7 minutes in..
I saw Feist live opening up for the Kings of Convenience a long time ago. She was solo on stage, looping her guitar and rocking out PJ Harvey/Patty Smith style. I thought her first album was really good and she wowed me by owning the stage all alone. I remember being interested in hearing her 2nd album. I heard her on some NPR show talking about how she lived upstairs from the recording studio and would just go down stairs and cut some tracks in her pajamas. Pretty much sounded like an album recorded in pajamas. I've liked a few tracks from her here and there but I think she didn't live up my hopes.
haha. Gonzales is one of my friends exes. Pretty talented and funny guy. Feist is also tight with Peaches and Mocky I first came to know her when I lived around the corner from a place called The Rivoli in Toronto which was a Thai restaurant/poolhall/hip bar and a performance space. Kids in the Hall, Broken Social Scene, the above mentioned and lots of others were regulars. Super eclectic mix. The Broadway hit The Drowsy Chaperone even opened there. Really great place. Also down the street from the studio and apartment you mentioned. At the beginnings some nights there were only like 30 people there. So undoubtedly have an emotional connection to the place and a lot of the acts since that was when I first moved to the big city and got my first real job. I only like about half of her stuff but really liked Metals.
Had gaming friend from MI who turned me onto The Voice to support his friend who got on. Laith did phenomenally and brought a splash of a different genre on the show, it seemed. Turns out my brother (a blues lover/player) went to see him during an REU at UMich a summer before. Nifty how that "small world" thing works sometimes. Wish he made it farther, but he did damn well for his placement.
Went down into the normie area of youtube looking for something that I don't normally listen to. I ended up at Eliza Doolittle. I like this one's voice; she has an almost Beth Orton vibe if Beth Orton did pop music. Kinda too sugary and pop for a normal listen for me as I like more serious music normally, but someone here will like her.
Saltillo - Ganglion. This is an interesting one. Its creator also did the art for a comic (here is a review of the first issue) that is gorgeous but barely contains a story. Still, the music is really good -- somehow he managed to make classical strings (with some electronics) be heavy. The Fragile - NiN. A work of pretty amazing genius, and I continue to find new and interesting things in there even almost 20 years later.