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Apr 24, 2017Pleasure is easily Feist’s most difficult album, far from the immediate accessibility of The Reminder, but she's a captivating performer and it may well be her richest statement.
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Apr 28, 2017Pleasure isn’t all novelty. It’s a demanding record expressing demanding emotions.
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Apr 28, 2017Tonally, Feist exposes a storm of feeling on Pleasure, probing an abyss of her own confusion, lack of trust in others and self-imposed isolation, and yet also a core tendency to love and care.
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Apr 26, 2017Pleasure presents a unique, uncompromising vision of intimacy and enjoyment.
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UncutApr 21, 2017Some of Feist's most affecting and exhilarating music to date. [Jun 2017, p.16]
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Apr 26, 2017Even though it’s Feist’s barest full-length, it’s also her most playful, her most consistently inventive. On the surface it sounds wafer-thin, but at its core there’s no shortage of heft.
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Apr 28, 2017Feist is sounding her most directional in a decade.
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Apr 27, 2017Many of the songs are slow-building numbers that gradually swell to a heightened moment of release. But Feist is too gifted a songwriter to ever need to rely on a mere formula; each time, the payoff is delightfully unexpected.
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Apr 21, 2017Feist is back, and, for the first time, it feels like she can finally feel the warmth that everyone has felt in her presence this whole time.
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MagnetJun 27, 2017She's no longer interested in the simple pleasures of immediate hooks. Instead, we get something more complex, challenging and provocative. [No. 143, p.54]
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May 25, 2017Charming, heart baring, polish-free and not buffed beyond recognition. Alive, basically. A pleasure.
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May 17, 2017The quiet/loud dynamics of Pleasure showcase an artist who’s satiating her capricious appetite, all while keeping her listeners guessing with a knowing wink.
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Q MagazineMay 9, 2017This unashamedly adult collection drags Feist deeper still into major talent territory. [Jul 2017, p.107]
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May 4, 2017The result is her most satisfying and unified album to date.
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May 3, 2017Emerging from the murk and into the new-found quiet of middle age, Feist’s Pleasure is a document of stark beauty that’s entirely and unequivocally her own.
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May 3, 2017It’s the work of a confident, mature songwriter with a clear and distinct voice.
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May 1, 2017These songs about maturity and internal toughness often move in mysterious ways, leaving plenty of space for Feist’s probing guitar work and an atmosphere that really breathes.
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Apr 28, 2017Her pop hits remain enjoyable, but what makes Feist’s albums hold up is the unexpected. Pleasure perhaps asks more of the listener than her first two records did, but really, the best pleasures do.
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Apr 28, 2017While it’s not always the easiest of listens, the raw emotional honesty and potency of her arrangements makes it truly a pleasure to have Leslie Feist back.
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Apr 27, 2017Feist has made her sex-and-death record, and in turn she has created her boldest statement yet. It's messy, confusing, thrilling, and of course, filled with pleasure.
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Apr 21, 2017Pleasure the album flows cohesively and poetically. [Apr - Jun 2017, p.80]
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Apr 27, 2017Pleasure features a number of songs that stretch towards the five-minute mark, making more sense as part of the whole rather than individually.
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Apr 28, 2017These songs build slow as they add instrumental muscle on a skeletal form, arriving at something at once scary and lovely. The musical palette is wide and subtle.
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Apr 27, 2017Unafraid in her songwriting to lay bare her faults and flat-out embracing flaws in the album's jagged production. Pleasure isn't a perfect album, and that's the point.
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MojoApr 25, 2017A record that is demanding and compelling, though often beautiful. [Jun 2017, p.90]
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May 9, 2017Unfortunately, the album ends up being a whole that is less than the sum of its parts, making no real impact on the listener as it quietly meanders along.
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Apr 27, 2017The pleasures that Pleasure describes are mundane to the point of tedium, trite beyond cliché. And the music itself is, despite the strength of Feist’s voice, mostly intolerable.
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Apr 26, 2017Unfortunately, there’s not much pleasure here for the listener, manoeuvred into the position of reluctant psychoanalyst.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 58 out of 65
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Mixed: 2 out of 65
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Negative: 5 out of 65
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