Pien Feith – Tough Love

Pien Feith – Tough Love (V2)

Amsterdam’s Pien Feith records under her own name and has worked with Neonbelle and The Very Sexuals. Much of her early work was stripped down, emotionally bare folk music, but over time she’s collected band members and incorporated more electronic elements into her sound. Her new album is entitled Tough Love and though the phrase means treating someone you love harshly in order to ultimately help them, it isn’t a dramatic departure from the slick electronic pop of 2011’s Dance On Time. On opener ‘The Highway’ she asks, ‘Won’t you drive me? I want you to drive me.’ She might as well be regarding the rest of the stage, since the most successful tracks aren’t the ones where she’s in control, but rather the ones where she’s sitting shotgun, propelled forward by her able backing band and simply enjoying the ride.

by Carly Blair

Pien Feith unveils her debut via V2 this Thursday, 14 March. Celebrate the release with Pien Feith at her Album Release Party at Bitterzoet, Amsterdam the same night.