Pleasure (Feist album) explained

Pleasure
Type:	studio
Artist:	Feist
Cover:	Pleasure - Feist.png
Released:	28 April 2017
Recorded:	Early 2016
Label:	Universal
Producer:	Leslie Feist Mocky Renaud LeTang
Prev Title:	Metals
Prev Year:	2011
Next Title:	Multitudes
Next Year:	2023

Pleasure is the fifth studio album by the Canadian singer-songwriter Feist, released on 28 April 2017, through Universal Music Canada. Thematically, the album is said to explore "emotional limits ... loneliness, private ritual, secrets, shame, mounting pressures, disconnect, tenderness, rejection, care and the lack thereof."^[1] All of the songs on the album are actually raw takes, as Feist explained on her Twitter: "Our desire was to record that state without guile or go-to's and to pin the songs down with conviction and our straight up human bodies."^[2]

Critical reception

Accolades

Semester-end lists

The A.V. Club	The Best Albums of 2017 So Far
Consequence of Sound	Top 25 Albums of 2017 (So Far)
Exclaim!	Top 29 Albums of 2017 So Far
Spin	50 Best Albums of 2017 So Far
Stereogum	50 Best Albums of 2017 So Far
Under the Radar	Top 50 Albums of 2017 So Far

Year-end lists

BrooklynVegan	Top 50 Albums of 2017
Drowned in Sound	Favourite Albums of 2017
Exclaim	Top 20 Pop & Rock Albums of 2017
Noisey	The 100 Best Albums of 2017
The Ringer	The Best Albums of 2017
The Skinny	Top 50 Albums of 2017
Spin	50 Best Albums of 2017
Stereogum	50 Best Albums of 2017
Uncut	Albums of the Year 2017
Under the Radar	Top 100 Albums of 2017
Uproxx	50 Best Albums of 2017

Personnel

Musicians

• Leslie Feist – vocals, guitar (all tracks); organ (3, 10, 11); drums, percussion (3); melodica (4), keyboards (5, 8), piano (7), electric bass (8), Mellotron (9)
• Mocky – background vocals (1, 5, 6), drums (1, 5, 6, 8), electric bass (1, 3, 4, 6, 9–11), Mellotron (1), keyboards (3–5, 7), percussion (3, 4, 7–9), organ (8)
• Paul Taylor – background vocals (1, 5, 6), electric bass (1, 2), synthesizer (1), drums (3, 10, 11), percussion (3, 7–9), programming (7)
• Chilly Gonzales – piano (1), organ (8)
• Renaud Letang – background vocals (6)
• Choir! Choir! Choir! – vocals (6)
• Colin Stetson – saxophone (7)
• Jarvis Cocker – oration (8)

Technical

• Feist – production
• Mocky – production
• Renaud Letang – production, mixing, engineering
• Mandy Parnell – mastering
• Thomas Moulin – engineering, mixing assistance
• Jane Tattersall – editing, sound design
• Bella Blasko – engineering assistance
• Guillaume Dujardin – engineering assistance
• Scott McDowell – engineering assistance

Artwork

• Mary Rasmussen – art direction, design
• Cass Bird – cover photo
• Jeremy Stewart – design
• Tyler Clark Burke – lettering
• Mary Rozzi – photography

Charts

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Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)^[3]	69
New Zealand Heatseekers Albums (RMNZ)^[4]	3

Notes and References

1. News: Feist's New Album Pleasure Due Out in April. McNett. Jared. 14 March 2017. 14 March 2017. Paste.
2. News: Feist Returns With New Album Pleasure. Pitchfork. Sodomsky. Sam. 14 March 2017. 14 March 2017.
3. Web site: ARIA Chart Watch #419. auspOp. 6 May 2017. 6 May 2017. 23 September 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200923234401/https://www.auspop.com.au/2017/05/aria-chart-watch-419/. dead.
4. Web site: NZ Heatseekers Albums Chart. Recorded Music NZ. 8 May 2017. 5 May 2017.