Have we forgotten about Feist in the age of Adele? No, we haven’t. It helps that Feist’s unique vision hardly ever repeats itself, as we learn via “Metals,” released last week.

“Metals” is the Canadian singer-songwriter’s moodiest record to date, a brooding experiment in melancholy and reflection. You can’t be surprised to hear that self-reflection in Feist’s lyrics, but it’s also there in the music on “Metals” — a far cry from the playful “1234″ that made her a star via 2007′s “The Reminder.”

It’s not wrong to call it a downer of a record. But if you can handle Feist’s brand of weight that straddles the line between Joni Mitchell and Joanna Newsom, you’ll find some gems here — the chiming “The Circle Married the Line,” the peppermint-sweet “Cicadas and Gulls” and the emotional “The Bad in Each Other” included.

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Ricardo Baca is the founder and executive editor of Reverb, the co-founder of The UMS and an award-winning critic and journalist at The Denver Post.