Pleasure (Feist album)

Pleasure
Studio album by
Feist
Released 28 April 2017
Recorded Early 2016
Length 53:28
Label Universal
Producer
  • Feist
  • Mocky
  • Renaud LeTang
Feist chronology
Metals
(2011) 		Pleasure
(2017) 		Multitudes
(2023)
Singles from Pleasure
  1. "Pleasure"
    Released: 17 March 2017
  2. "Century"

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." 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."

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
AnyDecentMusic? 7.6/10
Metacritic 80/100
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic
The A.V. Club A−
Entertainment Weekly B+
The Irish Times
Mojo
The Observer
Pitchfork 7.7/10
Q
Rolling Stone
Uncut 9/10

Accolades

Semester-end lists

Pleasure on semester-end best-of lists
Publication Accolade Rank Ref.
The A.V. Club The Best Albums of 2017 So Far
*
Consequence of Sound Top 25 Albums of 2017 (So Far)
13
Exclaim! Top 29 Albums of 2017 So Far
3
Spin 50 Best Albums of 2017 So Far
24
Stereogum 50 Best Albums of 2017 So Far
19
Under the Radar Top 50 Albums of 2017 So Far
13

Year-end lists

Pleasure on year-end best-of lists
Publication Accolade Rank Ref.
BrooklynVegan Top 50 Albums of 2017
8
Drowned in Sound Favourite Albums of 2017
7
Exclaim Top 20 Pop & Rock Albums of 2017
2
Noisey The 100 Best Albums of 2017
65
The Ringer The Best Albums of 2017
10
The Skinny Top 50 Albums of 2017
27
Spin 50 Best Albums of 2017
42
Stereogum 50 Best Albums of 2017
40
Uncut Albums of the Year 2017
74
Under the Radar Top 100 Albums of 2017
30
Uproxx 50 Best Albums of 2017
26

Track listing

Pleasure track listing
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Pleasure"
4:45
2. "I Wish I Didn't Miss You" Feist 4:18
3. "Get Not High, Get Not Low" Feist 4:57
4. "Lost Dreams" Feist 5:18
5. "Any Party"
  • Feist
  • Salole
 5:22
6. "A Man Is Not His Song" Feist 4:41
7. "The Wind" Feist 4:35
8. "Century" (featuring Jarvis Cocker)
5:53
9. "Baby Be Simple"
  • Feist
  • Salole
 6:21
10. "I'm Not Running Away"
  • Feist
  • Salole
 3:24
11. "Young Up"
  • Feist
  • Salole
 3:54
Total length: 53:28

Personnel

Musicians

  • 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

Artwork

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

Charts

Chart performance for Pleasure
Chart (2017) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) 69
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) 13
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) 14
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) 38
Canadian Albums (Billboard) 7
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) 70
French Albums (SNEP) 52
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) 12
Irish Albums (IRMA) 41
New Zealand Heatseekers Albums (RMNZ) 3
Portuguese Albums (AFP) 27
Scottish Albums (OCC) 37
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) 13
UK Albums (OCC) 48
US Billboard 200 91