In the fall of 2021, Leslie Feist made her first post-lockdown steps back to the stage with a roving concert series held in select cities around the world. These special in-the-round events—dubbed Multitudes—showcased all-new material written over the pandemic, a transformative period that saw the Canadian art-pop auteur settle into new motherhood while also grieving the recent passing of her father, the artist Harold Feist. The shows began with Feist performing solo on acoustic guitar—but this was no simple unplugged exercise. Hosted in unconventional spaces, Multitudes combined whispered intimacy with mind-blowing expanse: As the sets unfolded, Feist gradually introduced guest musicians to help push her hushed hymns toward skyscraping climaxes, while the blank venue walls became massive screens for abstract visuals and live images captured by covert camera crews roaming through the crowd. Feist’s sixth album, which bears the same name as those events, is by no means a recreation of those songs. “They were very different endeavors,” Feist tells Apple Music. “Over the course of 90 shows, the songs transformed, and the collection expanded and contracted because the show had songs that didn’t end up on the record, and there were songs that showed up later. And then, once we were in the studio, there were endless possibilities.” But as a record, Multitudes retains the concerts’ subversive spirit and element of surprise. Approached from one angle, the album contains some of the