My List: Feist

Midlake: "Roscoe"
"It's become my 18,000-times-a-day song," Feist says of this track from the Lindsay Buckingham-channeling Texas indie band's second album. "It sounds like some-one wasn't thinking, they were just feeling and doing."

Spoon: "The Beast and Dragon, Adored" [Listen]
Feist first heard Spoon when she played a radio gig with them last year. "This song is totally pure and feels like a completely distilled truth of rock & roll," she says. "There's no messing around -- the song is staring you in the eyes."

Gonzales: Solo Piano [Listen]
For the past year, Feist played at least one song from this Canadian avant-blues pianist's album every day. "It has all these sweet, perfect little melodies tripping over themselves," says Feist of her collaborator. "It's sweet in a much too complicated era."

M.I.A.: "Pull Up the People" [Listen]
"This was a mainstay from last year," she says of the Sri Lanka-born rapper's 2005 track. "It's the all-purpose song for starting the party, starting your day or whatever, because it's got one of the fattest beats."