Hear This: Feist makes a Leonard Cohen tune her own

Hear This: Feist makes a Leonard Cohen tune her own :







 In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well—some inspired by a weekly theme and some not, but always songs worth hearing.
Given the number of questionable Leonard Cohen covers out there, it’s the rare treat when an artist manages to both remain faithful to the original and make it her own. The track that gives Sarah Polley’s Take This Waltz its title isn’t the only Cohen song to make an appearance in the 2011 movie. Watching the closing credits of the wonderfully odd film recently,I was very pleasantly surprised to discover that Feist sings the almost-unrecognizable version of “Closing Time.” The tune plays during a pivotal party scene where Michelle Williams begins to realize the havoc her dalliance with her neighbor, played by Slings And Arrows’ Luke Kirby, is causing in her marriage to Seth Rogen. The scene ...

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