Feist Announces New Album, ‘Metals,’ Scheduled for October

Has it really been four years since Feist released an album? Breaking out into the mainstream in 2007 with The Reminder, Feist took a break in 2008 and announced today that she’s releasing a follow-up, titled Metals. Leading up to the October 4 release of Metals, the Canadian singer is putting out a series of vignettes, previews of her new music sans official videos, through her website. Two have been put up already. Watch below to get a preview of Metals:

With 12 tracks, Metals is produced by Feist, Chilly Gonzalez, Dominic Mocky Salole, and Valgeir Sigurosson and was recorded in Toronto and Big Sur, California.

In 2008, the singer, full name Leslie Feist, announced a break from the pressures of the music industry and to consider her next career move: "[My career] has become kind of large and it really began for me very, very small, like me alone in my bedroom with my four-track and a pair of headphones.

"I just need to go back there for a while to get my bearings again and then know what to do next. I just need to let it rest for a minute."

“Very, very small” is accurate for Feist’s start. While My Reminder and single “1234” vaulted her up to visibility, the singer had released two albums before, 1999’s Monarch and 2004’s Let It Die, which sold 400,000 copies. In addition to her solo releases, she recorded with groups By Divine Right and Broken Social Scene. About the singer’s ascent from indie rocker to mainstream performer, her long-time producer and collaborator Chilly Gonzalez told the New York Times in 2007: “Feist comes from an indie-rock world, where it’s sacrilege to admit any kind of ambition. But I had 100 percent in my mind the idea that we should have as much material as possible that could be played on the radio or resonate with a huge bunch of people. We already have the built-in reflex not to get behind anything that’s going to be hollow. And when you have an artist with this kind of credibility, the idea is to communicate to as many people as possible without doing something ridiculous.”