Big Cat, Osaka

Canadian indie-pop singer-songwriter Leslie Feist, better known as Feist, released her solo debut album Monarch in 1999. Composed of 10 songs, including Monarch and That’s What I Say, It’s Not What I Mean, the self-released album is out of print but a limited run of 2,000 vinyl copies was put out in 2012. It was another five years before the follow-up studio album Let It Die and then three more for The Reminder, released in 2007.
The Reminder earned Feist four Grammy nominations, including a nomination for Best New Artist. She has received 11 Juno Awards, including two Artist of the Year awards. Her fourth studio album Metals was released in September 2011, and in 2012 she collaborated on an EP with metal group Mastodon, releasing an interactive music video in the process. Seemingly one to keep her fans waiting, it was six years before the release of this year’s studio album (her fifth), Pleasure. Thematically, the album is said to explore “emotional limits … loneliness, private ritual, secrets, shame, mounting pressures, disconnect, tenderness, rejection, care and the lack thereof.”