# Pleasure (Feist album)

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."

## Critical reception

Professional ratings :
| Aggregate scores ||
| Source | Rating |
| AnyDecentMusic? | 7.6/10 |
| Metacritic | 80/100 |
| Review scores ||
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |
| The A.V. Club | A− |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+ |
| The Irish Times | |
| Mojo | |
| The Observer | |
| Pitchfork | 7.7/10 |
| Q | |
| Rolling Stone | |
| Uncut | 9/10 |

### Accolades
#### Semester-end lists

Pleasure on semester-end best-of lists :
| Publication | Accolade | Rank |
| The A.V. Club | The Best Albums of 2017 So Far | * |
| Consequence of Sound | Top 25 Albums of 2017 (So Far) | 13 |
| Exclaim! | Top 29 Albums of 2017 So Far | 3 |
| Spin | 50 Best Albums of 2017 So Far | 24 |
| Stereogum | 50 Best Albums of 2017 So Far | 19 |
| Under the Radar | Top 50 Albums of 2017 So Far | 13 |

#### Year-end lists

Pleasure on year-end best-of lists :
| Publication | Accolade | Rank |
| BrooklynVegan | Top 50 Albums of 2017 | 8 |
| Drowned in Sound | Favourite Albums of 2017 | 7 |
| Exclaim | Top 20 Pop & Rock Albums of 2017 | 2 |
| Noisey | The 100 Best Albums of 2017 | 65 |
| The Ringer | The Best Albums of 2017 | 10 |
| The Skinny | Top 50 Albums of 2017 | 27 |
| Spin | 50 Best Albums of 2017 | 42 |
| Stereogum | 50 Best Albums of 2017 | 40 |
| Uncut | Albums of the Year 2017 | 74 |
| Under the Radar | Top 100 Albums of 2017 | 30 |
| Uproxx | 50 Best Albums of 2017 | 26 |

## 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

## Charts

Chart performance for Pleasure :
| Chart (2017) | Peak position |
| Australian Albums (ARIA) | 69 |
| Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) | 13 |
| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) | 14 |
| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) | 38 |
| Canadian Albums (Billboard) | 7 |
| Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) | 70 |
| French Albums (SNEP) | 52 |
| German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) | 12 |
| Irish Albums (IRMA) | 41 |
| New Zealand Heatseekers Albums (RMNZ) | 3 |
| Portuguese Albums (AFP) | 27 |
| Scottish Albums (OCC) | 37 |
| Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) | 13 |
| UK Albums (OCC) | 48 |
| US Billboard 200 | 91 |