Both the Damage and the Done

Feist’s The Bad in Each Other—from the 2011 album Metals—strips everything down to the uncomfortable center of a relationship: the specific recognition of finding the worst of yourself reflected in someone you love, and staying anyway. Leslie Feist has always known how to land a line without decoration, and this one arrives with quiet, diagnostic weight. Not heartbreak exactly. Something more like the moment before it, when you still know exactly what’s coming and can’t quite bring yourself to move.