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Hear the title track from Feist's first album in 6 years, 'Pleasure'

Feist performs at the 2013 Newport Folk Festival.
Feist performs at the 2013 Newport Folk Festival.Adam Kissick for NPR

by Lars Gotrich

March 17, 2017

On Tuesday, March 14, Feist's new album, Pleasure, was announced with a release date of April 28 — amusingly, to the surprise of Leslie Feist herself. Now we have the title track, her first new original song in six years. It begins with an ambient hum and slowly growls into a grinding blues-rocker, swinging back and forth between elegance and nastiness.

Desire and the human body were on Feist's mind in making Pleasure, as she shared on Twitter:

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