Feist Pleasure
Album stream , Apr 28, 2017

"Pleasure 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."

100 % The Skinny

"Pleasure isn’t all novelty. It’s a demanding record expressing demanding emotions."

91 % The A.V. Club

"Tonally, 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."

90 % Paste Magazine

"Pleasure presents a unique, uncompromising vision of intimacy and enjoyment."

90 % Exclaim

"Even 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."

85 % The Line of Best Fit

"Feist is sounding her most directional in a decade."

83 % Pretty Much Amazing

"Many 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."

83 % Entertainment Weekly

"Feist 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."

83 % Consequence of Sound

"Charming, heart baring, polish-free and not buffed beyond recognition. Alive, basically. A pleasure."

80 % Record Collector

"The quiet/loud dynamics of Pleasure showcase an artist who’s satiating her capricious appetite, all while keeping her listeners guessing with a knowing wink."

80 % No Ripcord

"The result is her most satisfying and unified album to date."

80 % musicOMH.com

"Emerging 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."

80 % Clash Music

"It’s the work of a confident, mature songwriter with a clear and distinct voice."

80 % Drowned In Sound

"These 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."

80 % The Observer (UK)

"Her 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."

80 % Spin

"While 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."

80 % DIY Magazine

"Feist 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."

80 % AllMusic

"Pleasure the album flows cohesively and poetically. [Apr - Jun 2017, p.80]"

80 % Under The Radar

"Pleasure features a number of songs that stretch towards the five-minute mark, making more sense as part of the whole rather than individually."

77 % Pitchfork

"These 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."

70 % Rolling Stone

"Unafraid 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."

70 % Slant Magazine

"Unfortunately, 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."

50 % The 405

"The 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."

40 % Tiny Mix Tapes

"Unfortunately, there’s not much pleasure here for the listener, manoeuvred into the position of reluctant psychoanalyst."

40 % The Independent (UK)