Pleasure [VINYL]

Well if you love Feist! Gorgeous album and artwork and the last vinyl has a beautiful design. Love!

Surprising fantastic album.

interesting for sure

Best thing she's ever done. Less commercial and more depth. Loved the entire cd. Very beautiful.

Excellent as always.

It's been six years since Feist's last record "Metals" and this new one carries on in the same individual style, Leslie Feist always reminds me of a Canadian P.J. Harvey with her music going from tender, romantic and melodic to wild, powerful and unhinged - and that's just in one song. All the songs are Feist originals, many co-written with Dominic Salole and the track "Century" written with Jarvis Cocker and Brian LeBarton. Like her country woman Joni Mitchell many of her songs are built around her guitar playing, which on this and on "Metals" is surprisingly 'bluesy' - contrasting nicely with her often fragile, gentle vocals. Many of the arrangements start off very stripped down, just guitar often with up-front drums, before building, adding other instruments and vocal backups, with the overall sound alternating between nicely ramshackle and sophisticated.The album does have an overall melancholy, "I'm Not Running Away" is a powerful, modern take on a slow blues that wigs out towards the end, while the opening title track "Pleasure" again starts subdued and introspective before gradually building and becoming more frantic. "Century" is tense and dramatic from the start, ethereal and un-nerving with Mr. Cocker's distinctive spoken commentary coming towards the end, while "Baby Be Simple" built on acoustic guitar before electronic elements come in towards the end, is tender and plaintive. This is very much the world of Leslie Feist, very individual with few nods to anyone else - although "Any Party" did remind me of The Kinks meets The Pretenders, and I liked the male backup singers but not so much the sound effects that close the song. On my first couple of listens I still haven't got my head around everything here and I think that this is a record that needs careful listening and will definitely be a grower but I did enjoy my wander through the wonderful world of Leslie Feist.

I sensed that Feist's music was getting more and more difficult with Metals (which is my favorite Feist record if this one won't surpass with more listens), so I thought more fans that came for the baroque pop antic will lose interest and I'm seeing this is what's happening. There is no happy tunes like Mushaboom or 1234 here, the only joyful track seems to be "Any Party" actually.The album is nothing like its cover, which features a woman in a pink dress, entering a place filled with vivid pink flowers. It's raw and rough sounding. It's mostly quiet, think "Anti-Pioneer as an album". The meloncholy of that song certainly stayed for this album. I realized if not listening carefully, the songs pass you by. Reading the lyrics and listening to it, I find the record brilliant. Lyricwise, I always find her lyric writing very interesting, as I think there is an intellectual sincereness in her music. With lyrics that are hard to interpret and with songs that are so quiet with their sadness, I think this is the most serious Feist's music has ever been. I just hope she doesn't realize she was "singing to a mountain that was empty all along". Because, I guess with Feist, understatement means underrated. This record is a gem. Favorite tracks for now are "Any Party", "A Man Is Not His Song" and "Century".

all ok good seller