Sometimes you have to leave home to come back. Singer-songwriter Leslie Feist may now be the toast of the Paris set, but her Hogtown hometown showed her some mad love at the beyond-packed Phoenix Concert Theatre last Thursday night. We’ll have much more to say on her jaw-droppingly good Let It Die album in our Best of 2004 issue January 4, but until then, all we can offer is that you should be weeping if you missed this show. If you’ve slept on the album, well, there are still a few days left for you to be able to claim it was one of your favourite records of the year.

-TABASSUM SIDDIQUI