''Pleasure'' is the fifth

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by Canadian singer-songwriter Feist, released on 28 April 2017, through

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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

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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

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Track listing

Personnel

Musicians * Feist – vocals, guitar (all tracks); organ (3, 10, 11); drums, percussion (3); melodica (4), keyboards (5, 8), piano (7), electric bass (8),

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(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! Choir! Choir! Choir! is a Canadian musical choir, based in Toronto, Ontario.

– vocals (6) * Colin Stetson – saxophone (7) *

Jarvis Cocker Jarvis Branson Cocker (born 19 September 1963) is an English musician and radio presenter. As the founder, frontman, lyricist and only consistent member of the band Pulp, he became a figurehead of the Britpop genre of the mid-1990s. Following P ...

– oration (8) Technical * Feist –

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* Mocky – production * Renaud Letang – production, mixing,

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– mastering * Thomas Moulin – engineering, mixing assistance *

Jane Tattersall Jane Tattersall is a Canadian sound editor, most noted as a six-time Genie Award and Canadian Screen Award winner for Best Sound Editing.Jim Bawden, "Award-winning editor gives audiences a real earful ; Jane Tattersall is getting noticed for her so ...

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, sound design * Bella Blasko – engineering assistance * Guillaume Dujardin – engineering assistance * Scott McDowell – engineering assistance Artwork * Mary Rasmussen – art direction, design *

Cass Bird Cass Bird (born 1974) is an artist, photographer, and director who lives and works in New York City. Exhibitions Bird has exhibited widely within the United States and abroad, in exhibitions including ''Global Feminisms'' at The Brooklyn Museum ...

– cover photo * Jeremy Stewart – design * Tyler Clark Burke – lettering * Mary Rozzi – photography

Charts

References

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