''Pleasure'' is the fifth
studio album
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by Canadian singer-songwriter
Feist, released on 28 April 2017, through
Universal Music Canada
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. 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
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: "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
Accolades
Semester-end lists
Year-end lists
Track listing
Personnel
Musicians
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Feist – vocals, guitar (all tracks); organ (3, 10, 11); drums, percussion (3);
melodica (4), keyboards (5, 8), piano (7), electric bass (8),
Mellotron
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(9)
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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)
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– vocals (6)
*
Colin Stetson – saxophone (7)
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Jarvis Cocker
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– oration (8)
Technical
* Feist –
production
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* Mocky – production
* Renaud Letang – production,
mixing,
engineering
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*
Mandy Parnell
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–
mastering
* Thomas Moulin – engineering, mixing assistance
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Jane Tattersall
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–
editing
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, sound design
* Bella Blasko – engineering assistance
* Guillaume Dujardin – engineering assistance
* Scott McDowell – engineering assistance
Artwork
* Mary Rasmussen – art direction, design
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Cass Bird
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Exhibitions
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– cover photo
* Jeremy Stewart – design
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Tyler Clark Burke – lettering
* Mary Rozzi – photography
Charts
References
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2017 albums
Feist (singer) albums
Universal Music Canada albums