Pleasure

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AlbumApr 28 / 201711 songs, 53m 34s
Singer-Songwriter Indie Rock
Popular Highly Rated

Leslie Feist’s striking fifth album follows a series of left turns: the tidy indie pop of her early work, the commercial appeal of *The Reminder*, and the earthy about-face of *Metals*. Like *Metals*, *Pleasure* feels almost like a blues album, more spacious and stripped down than its predecessor, but strikingly dynamic, filled with rustling and whispers that swell into clangs and shouts. It proves that Feist is one of the most quietly unpredictable songwriters—and gifted vocalists—working today. “Come with your true arc/To fall all the way down,” she sings on the breathy centerpiece “Baby Be Simple,” sounding as exposed and mysterious as she ever has.

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7.7 / 10

On Leslie Feist’s fifth album, sparks of rock’n’roll are balanced with simmering introspection across a collection of patient, lushly arranged songs.

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Leslie Feist’s fifth solo album is coming out almost exactly a decade after her breakout release, 2007’s The Reminder. It’s serendipitous timing, but the 10-year-long shadow can’t be ignored: There’s no discussing Feist’s output without a brief detour to the twilight years of the George W. Bush presidency, to a time…

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8 / 10

The elusive Canadian's latest is a stripped-back reflection on growing older.

9.0 / 10

The new album from this Canadian singer-songwriter is an attempt to own the pain of uncertainty and flip it on its head.

Feist's first album in six years is her most lo-fi collection but her most ambitious

Our take on the singer-songwriter's fifth album.

Her most haunting work to date.

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For Feist to begin her first record in six years with a pregnant pause is a pretty bold move.

Even when Feist's new album is at its most unhinged, it's always intelligent and warm, with a masterfully controlled narrative.

9 / 10

Over the course of their careers, many artists tend to polish up their sound as their profiles get bigger, opting for larger budgets and mor...

8.0 / 10

Nearing a 20-year music career, Leslie Feist has proven herself to be a force of nature since the release of her debut record Monarch in 1999.

8 / 10

Across her nearly two-decade run, there’s always been the prevailing sense that Leslie Feist makes music by and large for her own betterment. Pep

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6 / 10

Feist returns with an album that seems a world ways from her breakthrough with 'The Remainder'. 'Pleasure' is wilfully raw dark-night-of-the-soul music.

Feist's 'Pleasure' embraces the melancholic sentiments of blues and improvisational immediacy of jazz. Read our review.

8.5 / 10

Feist's hiatus is over on a record that really tries to trick you over and over again. Read Owen Maxwell's review of Feist's new LP 'Pleasure', now out.

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