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Feist and Mastodoncollaborating on split “7

Wed 30th Nov, 2011 in International News

Following a recent appearance on Later… with Jools Holland, Canadian indie hero Leslie Feist and metal titans Mastodon have hooked up to record a split 7” single for Record Store Day 2012. (Sadly Bon Iver who also appeared on that episode won’t be taking on a Mastodon track as well.)

Feist told Hit Fix about the unexpected collaboration in October – “Brent [Hinds] and I were nodding at each other, and he’s like, ‘Nice riff,’ and I’m like ‘Nice tone.’ So backstage I’m thinking about letting these two worlds collide, how they should collide, so I’m like ‘How about ‘Metals’ meeting metal?’… Brent was like, ‘Well, I do like that Bad in Each Other song, I could see that.’ Maybe now I will look into learning to cover Oblivion … or anything off [ The Hunter ]. That album’s amazing.”

Now, as Mastodon bassist/vocalist Troy Sanders has revealed to MTV Canada that the two acts plan to cover one another’s songs for a split single in support of Record Store Day 2012. “The idea is for Mastodon to cover a Feist song and throw some hair and dirt on it and they’re going to take a Mastodon song and pretty it up a little bit,” Sanders explained. “We only have a short window to make that happen, which is the month of December, but we’re going to do everything we can to work with Feist and have a split 7” to support independent record stores.”

Sadly Feist and Mastodon will miss each other by a few weeks as they tour with the Laneway and Soundwave festivals early next year cruelly denying us what would undoubtedly be a truly memorable double headline sideshow.