Rolling Stone - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "These songs build slow as they add instrumental muscle on a skeletal form, arriving at something at once scary and lovely. The musical palette is wide and subtle..."

Spin - "The title track, with its twists and turns and pleasure-yawps, sounds fun largely because it sounds spontaneous."

Entertainment Weekly - "On PLEASURE, she's reduced the sing-alongs to a minimum, stripping her songs of almost any rock and roll abandon for a folk-based template that is beautifully minimalist and measured." -- Grade: B+

Magnet - "It's roughhewn and stark, unsettled and earnest, perhaps not unlike a set of demos. It's fascinating -- at times beautiful, at times abrasive."

Paste (magazine) - "Tonally, Feist exposes a storm of feeling on PLEASURE, probing an abyss of her own confusion, lack of trust in others and self-imposed isolation, and yet also a core tendency to love and care....Feist is raw and reflective here..."

Clash (magazine) - "[I]t's baffling to think that she has outdone herself here, producing what is her most intimate work yet....Rarely have her songs been as unpredictably structured as they are here, with fine details revealing themselves with adequate patience and attention."

Uncut (magazine) - "The result is music that has an acute sense of physicality -- of words pushed up and out from diaphragms, of fingertips moving roughly on and across strings..."