Feist's Next Solo Record To Feature "A Lot More Guitar"

The release of Leslie Feist's remix record, Open Season, is a mere 18 days away, but she's already fast at work on the proper follow-up to Let It Die.

"Last month I started making a new record," said Feist from the Juno Awards red carpet last weekend. "I rented a beautiful old manor house about an hour outside of Paris, and it had lots of bedrooms in it, which was a selling point.

"But it also comes with an amazing studio in the basement. We wired everything up to the two parlour rooms and I brought over my Canadian band and basically all my ex-pat Canadian friends who are based in Europe now."

Feist's ex-pat friends include her regular supporting cast of perverts and miscreants.

"We've got this Canadian convergence of Mocky, Chilli Gonzales, Jamie Lidell, who's a British friend, and then my Canadian band, who are Bryden Baird and Jesse Baird and also Julian Brown from Apostle Of Hustle. We can play this Canadian pyramid."

Feist has garnered the bulk of her acclaim as a sultry songstress, but her past work with Peaches and By Divine Right has proven that she can rock it up, too. Although she didn't characterize the new material as rockier, a greater dose of six-string will certainly be part of the equation.

"There's definitely a lot more guitar," she said quickly before pausing, "I guess. I don't know yet. That's the fun. I'm still unwrapping it. Like, 'What's in there?'"

One certainty about the new album is the different approach Feist is taking on it compared to Let It Die.

"It's gonna be a little more live," she said. "We were all looking at each other, all in the same room playing and the same time looking at each other. So there's that feeling, it's completely more visual. It's not so much in a cocoon like the last one feels like."

Feist expects the record to be released "early next year, like a January type of thing."