Here are the things you need to know about Leslie Feist in order to fall in love with The Reminder: In a past life, she was a shouty battle of the bands teen queen in a Calgary punk band. She made bashful indie boys swoon with her brash riffs, playing guitar with Toronto rock band By Divine Right and fronting her shout-out indie rock defining Broken Social Scene. She's been placed in the role of unlikely fashion icon - she's a tomboy who doesn't really do make-up. She breathed life into surreal sock puppets alongside her electro-trash BFF Peaches in Berlin. Onstage, she can deftly pivot from band leader to solo singer, captivating a room with just her guitar. You can hear all of this on The Reminder, and in some ways it's more Feist than anything she's done before.

Feist and her talented comrades, Gonzales, Mockey, Jamie Lidell, and Ron Sexsmith hung out in their pajamas making The Reminder. She shivered through a one-off effort outside a studio in Toronto's Danforth neighborhood, succeeding in capturing Canadian birds in song for folk ballad "The Park." "Brandy Alexander" has a sucker-punch melody tumbling over a kick drum heartbeat. The jangly Dusty In Memphis teen dream paean "1234" follows in the same 1-2 groove of the album's single, "My Moon My Man." With perennial collaborator Gonzales, she came up with "Limit To Your Love," an ominous slow-burner in which Feist becomes Nico over hard, soul piano chords and Moe Tucker percussion. Live favorite "Sea Lion Woman," which covers the famous traditional chant by Nina Simone, got propelled into the stratosphere with cell phone sounding synths, handclaps and a backing mini-gospel choir. Every facet of Feist - the punk kid from Calgary, the Toronto indie rock poster girl, the Parisian ex-pat who taps the cobblestone - on this album is a reminder of "how her heart behaves."

Tour Dates
May 15 Royal Theatre Victoria, British Columbia
May 16 Orpheum Theatre Vancouver, British Columbia
May 18 Winspear Edmonton, Alberta
May 19 Jubilee Calgary, Alberta
May 22 Conexus Arts Center Regina, Saskatchewan
May 23 Burton Cummings Theatre Winnipeg, Manitoba
May 25 Massey Hall Toronto, Ontario
May 26 Massey Hall Toronto, Ontario
May 31 Bronson Centre Ottawa, Ontario
Jun 1 Olympia Theatre Montreal, Quebec
Jun 2 Imperial Theatre Quebec City, Quebec
Jun 8 Calvin Theatre Northampton, Massachusetts
Jun 9 Berkelee Performance Center Boston, Massachusetts
Jun 11 Town Hall New York, New York
Jun 12 Town Hall New York, New York
Jun 13 9:30 Club Washington D.C., Washington DC
Jun 14 Carolina Theatre Greensboro, North Carolina
Jun 15 Variety Playhouse Atlanta, Georgia
Jun 16 Bonnaroo '07 Manchester, Tennessee
Jun 19 The Vic Chicago, Illinois
Jun 20 Pantages Theatre Minneapolis, Minnesota
Jun 22 Boulder Theatre Boulder, Colorado
Jun 24 Moore Theatre Seattle, Washington
Jun 25 The Crystal Ballroom Portland, Oregon
Jun 26 The Fillmore San Francisco, California
Jun 29 The Wiltern Los Angeles, California
Jul 28 Fuji Rocks Festival Yuzawa