{"id":26980,"date":"2017-03-16T21:03:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T05:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=26980"},"modified":"2017-03-17T06:39:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T14:39:52","slug":"cause-for-celebration-listen-to-feists-illuminating-new-song-pleasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2017-03\/cause-for-celebration-listen-to-feists-illuminating-new-song-pleasure\/","title":{"rendered":"Cause for Celebration: Listen to Feist’s Illuminating New Song “Pleasure”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s been entirely too long. Leslie Feist<\/strong> lights up the darker corners of this world with her music, and (have you noticed?) there has recently been a dire dimming. Thankfully that is about to change. Late today Feist<\/strong><\/a> revealed the title track from her imminent album Pleasure\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(due April 28th). Check the beguiling new track below (lyrics at bottom).<\/p>\n

Feist<\/strong> has said this about the album: “I made this record last winter with 2 of my closest friends, Mocky<\/strong> and Renaud LeTang<\/strong>. I was raw and so were the takes. 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. I titled the album Pleasure<\/strong><\/em> like I was planting a seed or prophecizing some brightness. The experience of pleasure is mild or deep, sometimes temporal, sometimes a sort of low grade lasting, usually a motivator. If the way you look at things is how they look then my motivation is to look with a brighter eye.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new song is a tour de force, with a minimalist approach (initially) that heightens the song’s tensions and release as it builds and builds. Classic Feist<\/strong>. Our pleasure to have her back.<\/p>\n