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."
Contents
Critical reception
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