Pleasure by Feist

Pleasure, Feist's fifth studio album, came out on 28 April 2017 through Universal Music Canada, six years after Metals, and it's a record that refuses to tidy itself up. The Canadian singer-songwriter, also a member of Broken Social Scene, produced it herself, and every song here is a raw take, with the breath, buzz and wobble left in. Guitars crackle and clip, her voice drops to a murmur and then flares into a yelp, and the silences land as hard as the noise.

The songs circle loneliness, secrets, shame, private ritual and tenderness, the pressure that builds between people and the care that does or doesn't arrive. "Any Party" was the one that carried it onto alternative radio.

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