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<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><b>For Immediate Release:<br>
</b>April 18, 20122<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;line-height:115%">FEIST TO RELEASE SPLIT SINGLE WITH MASTODON<br>
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%">“FEISTODON” IS OUT EXCLUSIVELY ON RECORD STORE DAY
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Toronto, ON (April 18, 2012)…<b>Feist</b> will release her much anticipated collaboration with Mastodon exclusively for
<b>Record Store Day</b> on <b>April 21<sup>st</sup></b> on Cherrytree/Interscope/Reprise. The split single, being touted as
<b><i>Feistodon</i></b>, 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.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">"I'll wear armor and hold up a sword and stand out front of the independent record shops and just protect them," Feist tells
<i>Rolling Stone</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">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."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Mastodon guitarist Bill Kelliher says of Feist's “A Commotion” from 2011’s acclaimed
<u>Metals</u> (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."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>Metals (Cherrytree/Interscope) </i></b>ended 2011 on top of
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:black">many ‘Best of 2011’ lists including Pitchfork, Spin, Rolling Stone and was chosen as the <b>#1 Album of 2011</b> in the New York Times. Jon Pareles (New York Times) praised her “</span><i>songs of heartache,
solitude and eventual solace”</i> as <i>“…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.”</i><span style="color:black"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">About Record Store Day:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><br>
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.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"> For a list of independent stores please go to
</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.recordstoreday.com">www.recordstoreday.com</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><img border="0" width="116" height="163" id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image011.png@01CD1D79.D1679FD0" alt="Description: Description: Cherrytree_logo.png"><img border="0" width="108" height="160" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image012.png@01CD1D79.D1679FD0" alt="Description: Description: Interscope_logo.png"><img border="0" width="117" height="153" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image013.jpg@01CD1D79.D1679FD0" alt="Description: Description: Reprise_Records.jpeg"></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="https://mail.pressherepublicity.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=6c6222207cc14320bca1414303028462&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.listentofeist.com%2f" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">www.listentofeist.com</span></b></a><b><u><span style="color:blue"><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>twitter: </b>
<a href="http://www.twitter.com/feistmusic"><b>@feistmusic</b></a><b><u><span style="color:blue"><br>
</span></u></b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/feist"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">www.facebook.com/feist</span></b></a><b><u><span style="color:blue"><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="http://www.cherrytreerecords.com"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">www.cherrytreerecords.com</span></b></a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><br>
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT<br>
</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">Jennie Boddy or Derek Sherron<br>
</span><b>212.246.2640<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<a href="mailto:derek@pressherepublicity.com"><b>derek@pressherepublicity.com</b></a><b>
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