Ryan Fricke March 14th, 2017 - 10:03 AM
The announcement has finally been made! After about five and a half years, the Canadian artist, Feist, has just announced her fifth full-length album. The follow up to 2011’s Metals is titled Pleasure and sees Fiest producing with Mocky and Renaud Latang again. The new LP is being released through Universal, whose listing says that the album is “an exploration into emotional limits,” touching on “loneliness, private ritual, secrets, shame, mounting pressures, disconnect, tenderness, rejection, care and the lack thereof,” as reported by Brooklyn Vegan. There hasn’t been any single shared for the new album or its artwork, but the tracklisting can be found below.
Feist is on track to appear at a couple of festivals this year, including Eaux Claires and the Winnipeg Folk Festival. There will also be an appearance on the next Broken Social Scene album that is due out sometime this summer.
Apparently the announcement was also news to the singer, as she tweeted today at 1:20 PM that she was pleasantly surprised to wake up with the music world abuzz at the prospect of a new Feist album. She then tweeted out a thread giving some background on the album:
But as Leonard Cohen once said "the devil laughs at those who make plans."
— Feist (@FeistMusic) March 14, 2017
I've been so inward facing during the making of this record that I hadn't quite prepared myself to face it, and myself, outward again.
— Feist (@FeistMusic) March 14, 2017
So here's what I can tell you….
I made this record last winter with 2 of my closest friends, Mocky and Renaud LeTang.— Feist (@FeistMusic) March 14, 2017
I was raw and so were the takes.
— Feist (@FeistMusic) March 14, 2017
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.
— Feist (@FeistMusic) March 14, 2017
I titled the album Pleasure like I was planting a seed or prophecising some brightness.
— Feist (@FeistMusic) March 14, 2017
The experience of pleasure is mild or deep, sometimes temporal, sometimes a sort of low grade lasting, usually a motivator.
— Feist (@FeistMusic) March 14, 2017
If the way you look at things is how they look then my motivation is to look with a brighter eye.
— Feist (@FeistMusic) March 14, 2017
So there it is, in a nutshell. I'm grateful for your curiosity, the music is en route. Best and soon, Leslie
— Feist (@FeistMusic) March 14, 2017
Feist – Pleasure tracklist
1. Pleasure
2. I Wish I Didn’t Miss You
3. Get Not High, Get Not Low
4. Lost Dreams
5. Any Party
6. A Man Is Not His Song
7. The Wind
8. Century
9. Baby Be Simple
10. I’m Not Running Away
11. Young Up
