Feist: Tiny Desk Concert

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Feist: Tiny Desk Concert

By Stephen Thompson

Published July 24, 2024 at 6:25 PM PDT

There鈥檚 always been a disconnect between 鈥檚 music 鈥� soothing, thoughtful, deliberately crafted 鈥� and her warm, wryly funny personality. We got to witness both in her long-awaited Tiny Desk debut, which finds her showcasing new and old material amid self-effacing commentary on the pandemic, public speaking and her strange moment of reality-TV fame.

鈥淭he great joke that will always remain about [her song 鈥楬iding Out in the Open鈥橾 is that we ended up singing it to contestants on The Bachelor 鈥� where true love rules all, of course,鈥� Feist said between songs. 鈥淪o singing truisms about eternal love to youth on a game show changed the context forever.鈥�

Performing two songs from last year鈥檚 wonderful Multitudes (鈥淚n Lightning鈥� and 鈥淗iding Out in the Open鈥�) and two songs from 2011鈥檚 Metals (鈥淐aught a Long Wind鈥� and 鈥淭he Bad in Each Other鈥�), Feist was joined by a group of players and singers who鈥檝e each performed notable work in their own right: Keyboardist Rose Droll is a terrific solo singer-songwriter, drummer Andrew Barr plays in The Slip and The Barr Brothers, bassist Todd Dahlhoff often plays and records with Devendra Banhart and Meshell Ndegeocello, and multi-instrumentalist Amir Yaghmai is a member of The Voidz. Together, though, they sound like one impeccable organism, with Feist herself as its bold, unfailingly kind beating heart.

SET LIST

鈥淚n Lightning鈥�
鈥淐aught a Long Wind鈥�
鈥淗iding Out in the Open鈥�
鈥淭he Bad in Each Other鈥�

MUSICIANS

Leslie Feist: lead vocals, guitar
Amir Yaghmai: violin, guitar, vocals
Todd Dahlhoff: bass, vocals, musical direction
Andrew Barr: drums
Rose Droll: keys, piano, vocals

TINY DESK TEAM

Producer: Stephen Thompson
Director: Joshua Bryant
Audio Technical Director: Neil Tevault
Editor: Kara Frame
Host/Series Producer: Bobby Carter
Videographers: Joshua Bryant, Kara Frame, Zayrha Rodriguez
Audio Engineer: Hannah Gluvna
Production Assistant: Ashley Pointer
Photographer: Michael Zamora
Tiny Desk Team: Hazel Cills, Maia Stern
Executive Producer: Suraya Mohamed
Series Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson
VP, Visuals and 老夫子传媒: Keith Jenkins

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Stephen Thompson

Stephen Thompson is a writer, editor and reviewer for NPR 老夫子传媒, where he speaks into any microphone that will have him and appears as a frequent panelist on All Songs Considered. Since 2010, Thompson has been a fixture on the NPR roundtable podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour, which he created and developed with NPR correspondent Linda Holmes. In 2008, he and Bob Boilen created the NPR 老夫子传媒 video series Tiny Desk Concerts, in which musicians perform at Boilen's desk. (To be more specific, Thompson had the idea, which took seconds, while Boilen created the series, which took years. Thompson will insist upon equal billing until the day he dies.)