FEIST Split Single w/Mastodon = FEISTODON!

[Jennie Boddy]

For Immediate Release:
April 18, 20122
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FEIST TO RELEASE SPLIT SINGLE WITH MASTODON
"FEISTODON" IS OUT EXCLUSIVELY ON RECORD STORE DAY
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Toronto, ON (April 18, 2012)...Feist will release her much anticipated collaboration with Mastodon exclusively for Record Store Day on April 21st on Cherrytree/Interscope/Reprise. The split single, being touted as Feistodon, will be released as a limited edition 7" and features Feist covering Mastodon's "Black Tongue" and them returning the favor to cover Feist's "A Commotion."


"I'll wear armor and hold up a sword and stand out front of the independent record shops and just protect them," Feist tells Rolling Stone.

Feist goes on to say "'Black Tongue" is speaking in my kind of elemental language - about diamond and earth and sky. It's all just in a language that I already sort of speak lyrically. It was pretty easy to climb into that one."



Mastodon guitarist Bill Kelliher says of Feist's "A Commotion" from 2011's acclaimed Metals (Cherrytree/Interscope): "It's very haunting the way that she sings, 'I cut off my tongue.' This dainty girl singing these brutal lyrics. It kind of sent chills up my spine when I heard it....For me it's much more atmosphere - creating my version of what metal is."


Metals (Cherrytree/Interscope) ended 2011 on top of many 'Best of 2011' lists including Pitchfork, Spin, Rolling Stone and was chosen as the #1 Album of 2011 in the New York Times. Jon Pareles (New York Times) praised her "songs of heartache, solitude and eventual solace" as "...both handmade and subtly sophisticated...She traded pop gloss for pensive, lingeringly unresolved melodies and arrangements that crest unexpectedly from within, with her own taut electric guitar and apparitions of horns and voices summoning the tensions behind the beauty."
About Record Store Day:
Since the inception of Record Store Day 5 years ago, artists of all genres and backgrounds have helped contribute to the event - an international holiday that encourages music fans to visit their local brick-and-mortar music retailer - by dropping limited-edition, one-day-only releases made available exclusively at independent retailers. For a list of independent stores please go to www.recordstoreday.com<http://www.recordstoreday.com>

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Jennie Boddy or Derek Sherron
212.246.2640
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