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Monarch: Lay Your Jewelled Head Down
Pop · 1999 · 10 tracks

Monarch: Lay Your Jewelled Head Down

Feist

Grittier and more guitar-driven than her later work. A hazy, late-night collection of indie-rock sketches recorded before she became a global pop icon.

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It's the gritty, late-night indie rock record Feist made before she became 'Feist'.

A restless, late-night introspection wrapped in dusty electric guitar and smoky vocals.

Monarch: Lay Your Jewelled Head Down · vs · Feist
Dusk+4.0σ

Dusk saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 10 Tracks
01
It’s Cool to Love Your Family
3:54
02
Onliest
4:03
03
La sirena
4:29
04
One Year A.D.
4:51
05
Monarch
5:10
06
That’s What I Say, It’s Not What I Mean
3:36
07
Flight #303
2:49
08
Still True
3:53
09
The Mast
4:44
10
New Torch
4:19
Moments Worth Waiting For
The sudden shift into a loungey, jazz-inflected groove on La Sirena that feels like a smoky club hallucination
The title track's slow-burn build where the electric guitar begins to fray at the edges of the melody
The fragile, unadorned vocal opening of It's Cool to Love Your Family that sets a disarmingly honest tone
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