“Metals displays a shift in Feist’s perspective as a songwriter; after The Reminder she’s said she’s now less interested in writing songs that could be read as intimate and personal but instead crafting lyrics that read almost like sparse proverbs. (She’s likened some of the lines on Metals to ‘adages and morals that you find embroidered in junk shops.’) The resulting tracks feel universal, and not unlike Bill Callahan’s Apocalypse, in their attempts to … contrast the elegance of the things around us with the weird, erratic ways of human beings.” — Lindsay Zoladz.