To appropriate a quote from Wu-Tang Clan’s Ghostface Killah, Feist’s comeback single “Pleasure” is “rugged and raw.” It’s dark and nervy and minimalist in a way the Broken Social Scene member’s previous work isn’t. When she yelps, “It’s my pleasure” over a grimy guitar riff meant for the Mississippi Delta, there’s no sense there actually is any pleasure. It’s the sound of a heady kind of fury but also the sound of someone shaking off the rust after six years away and rocking out. And honestly, the pleasure is all ours. —Jared McNett
Tuesday, June 6, 2023
