Surreal can be exciting and good, and it can be like living inside an alien landscape, and it can be completely interesting, or you can be alienated from your own life - inside your own life, it doesnt feel familiar any more.
FeistI was grateful to be away from all that familiarity, to have a chance to do something anonymously.
FeistI love storms and how the whole house shakes. When I was a kid, there would be lots of thunder and lightning storms, and they would knock the electricity out. We had this oil lantern that had been in my grandfather's homestead at the turn of the century, before there even was electricity. He'd bring it down off the top shelf, and we'd always play cards.
FeistI wrote the album [Metals] in the fall. In about four months, I went from zero to finished. It usually takes forever.
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