Feist On New World Provider

11/17/08 3:15pm

by Jen White (CHARTattack)

Feist, Snailhouse and members of The Besnard Lakes and The Royal Mountain Band appear on the new album from Montreal's The World Provider.

Hard Feelings, The World Provider's sophomore album, was recorded over the last two years by Besnard Laker Jace Lasek (Patrick Watson, Islands) and Dave Smith at Montreal's Breakglass Studio. It includes three tracks from 2006's Lost Illusions EP (including "Valentine," which features Feist) and nine previously unreleased songs. Other guests include Besnard Lakes' Steve Raegele, Snailhouse (a.k.a Mike Feuerstack) and The Royal Mountain Band's Warren Auld.

You can hear "Valentine" and "Hard Feelings" on The World Provider's MySpace page.

Hard Feelings was recently released as a Super Fun Activity Book with puzzles, cartoons, jokes, skill-testing questions and a download code for the music. You can download the album via Zunior.

The World Provider, the alter ego of writer/filmmaker Malcolm Fraser, started in Toronto in 1999 alongside the likes of Peaches, Feist and Gonzales. The one-man band later moved to Montreal and has expanded over the years to perform as both a duo, consisting of Fraser (vocals) and his wife Stacey DeWolfe (keyboards/vocals), and as a full band featuring Fraser, DeWolfe, keyboardist Kara Blake and The Besnard Lakes' Olga Goreas on drums.

The World Provider released the Enabler debut in 2004.

See The World Provider here:

Nov. 24 Quebec City, QC @ L'Imperial De Quebec w/Stars
Nov. 28 Montreal, QC @ Club Lambi w/011 and Mixylodian
Nov. 29 Toronto, ON @ The Drake Hotel w/Fighter/Lover and The Cleef
Dec. 12 Ottawa, ON @ The Manx

Here are the tracks on Hard Feelings:

"Valentine"
"Flying Blind"
"The World's Biggest Assholes"
"I Got It All Wrong"
"Happy Ending"
"Volunteers"
"Hard Feelings"
"Entertainment Law"
"Silver And Steel"
"This Is Hochelaga"
"C'est Comme Ca"
"Dealing With Difficult People"

Here's the video for "Volunteers," which was directed by Lasek: