the run from sweet talk through to the end is just sublime
― monotony, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 02:11 (eleven years ago) link
^^^ EXACTLY RIGHT!
― teledyldonix, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 02:50 (eleven years ago) link
i've also been grappling w/ the fact that they released all the best songs before the album dropped
― young money color me badd (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 03:07 (eleven years ago) link
that's not all that out of the ordinary surely? esp for pop albums?
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 10:08 (eleven years ago) link
'Night Light' is better than most of the pre-release songs.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 10:12 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that's one of the best and wasn't leaked
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 10:58 (eleven years ago) link
with the 2 bonus tracks, i have a ratio of 9 great songs out of 13.
― sisilafami, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 11:36 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't know of her before the album dropped. Besides being sucked in with "Sweet Talk" and immediately downloading the rest, I hadn't heard anything.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 00:04 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah Sweet Talk is great, it's got a bounce to it that's absent in most of the rest of the album.
Still Love Me is the real clunker here I think. That and No To Love coming one after another so early in the record really messes with the album's flow.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 09:07 (eleven years ago) link
the album dramatically improved for me once i realised that those two were the ones to just skip
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 11:45 (eleven years ago) link
it took me ages to get round to hearing the singles so the timing, in that they were just clicking with me as i got to hear the full album, worked out perfectly
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 11:46 (eleven years ago) link
I like both those songs a lot, esp "No To Love"
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
"Night Light" hit me like a ton of bricks on the way home from work today. Arrangment, production, melody...shit is HEAVY DUTY.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 20 September 2012 00:56 (eleven years ago) link
feel like the singles are the stand outs and there's lot of filler on here. Still relatively enjoyable though. Amazing voice
― marginal victory, Thursday, 20 September 2012 04:50 (eleven years ago) link
i find the diversity of opinion re: the quality of the singles compared to the rest of the tracks interesting
― teledyldonix, Thursday, 20 September 2012 08:17 (eleven years ago) link
five of 11 tracks have been singles now, right? six if you include "strangest feeling".
― lex pretend, Thursday, 20 September 2012 08:26 (eleven years ago) link
All these so-called post-dubsteppers, RnB-deconstructivists, indie-beatmakers etc., it's all really some form of (neo)trip-hop, don't you think? Or is that reductionist? It's not meant as an insult.. I like many of these artists, Jessie Ware among them.
― Mule, Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
To my ears Ware hovers outside trip-hop, closer to Blue Lines-era Massive Attack
― taking tiger mountain (up the butt) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
I've always considered Blue Lines trip-hop (because of after the fact-categorization, probably, I was 7 in '91) so I guess we agree on Ware, then.
― Mule, Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:55 (eleven years ago) link
Something about the poses she strikes reminds me of Shara Nelson: mechanized soul with space for a billowy presence.
― taking tiger mountain (up the butt) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:57 (eleven years ago) link
I really like the title track, can't get enough of it. Incidentally, some of the harmonic stuff and the arpeggio effects going on in it reminds me a lot of "Bloom" by Radiohead.
― some white dude (Turangalila), Thursday, 20 September 2012 22:41 (eleven years ago) link
it's all totally trip-hop revival. it confused me the first time i saw someone use that as an insult.
― lex pretend, Friday, 21 September 2012 08:46 (eleven years ago) link
If so, we're still at the early, warm, Wild Bunch bit of trip-hop, rather than the dead-eyed Sneaker Pimps 1998 zombie incarnation. The latter bit would be the insult.
― Matt DC, Friday, 21 September 2012 08:53 (eleven years ago) link
i actually liked that sneaker pimps album at the time
― lex pretend, Friday, 21 September 2012 08:55 (eleven years ago) link
Having lived with this album for a month or so now I'm pretty sure that most of its faults come from the presence of the dude from The Invisible. There's a sort of damp and dusty worthiness to some of the production.
― Matt DC, Friday, 21 September 2012 09:08 (eleven years ago) link
Ooof, not very good on Later.
Love the album 111% though.
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 13 October 2012 00:38 (eleven years ago) link
It's like an X-Factor cover, maybe she's just nervous though.
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 13 October 2012 00:40 (eleven years ago) link
Later last night was the first time I'd heard her. I thought that song sounded a bit like Roxette.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Saturday, 13 October 2012 14:12 (eleven years ago) link
she was better at Maida Vale -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/sessions/2012-10-18_jessieware
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 19 October 2012 09:47 (eleven years ago) link
i listen to this album all the time. I wouldn't really think to slot it anywhere near Blue Lines, it seems much more straightforward R&B to me. but it's very good.
― akm, Saturday, 20 October 2012 03:28 (eleven years ago) link
I'm in love with the Ewan Pearson remix of No to Love
http://soundcloud.com/jessieware/sets/no-to-love-remixes/
― Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 10:50 (eleven years ago) link
Brownstone cover (produced by Japanese teenagers - ?!), Kate Moross video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXJl5Gf05zg
― nashwan, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 11:21 (eleven years ago) link
I love both of these things
― owenf, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 12:02 (eleven years ago) link
i didnt think i liked the todd mix but it's v beautiful once it gets going
almost tempted to do a ware remixes poll but meh
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 13:38 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkF7PZhVlNw
<3 this one
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 13:39 (eleven years ago) link
"Taking In Water" has become my jam .
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
it's my favorite from the album
well other than maybe "sweet talk"
or "110%"
― teledyldonix, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
as great as this album is, (still top 5 of the year for me) the remixes that have emerged for songs from it have been fucking great. the joe goddard "night light" remix is RIDICULOUS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZrThWeqmzs
― childish bambino (rennavate), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
This "sweet talk" remix too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvOQHC4Muxs
― childish bambino (rennavate), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 21:49 (eleven years ago) link
love that "Night Light" remix
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
Finally got around to hearing this after months of loving "Wildest Moments." Good album, though I find that with the exception of the song I already liked (which is terrific both melodically and lyrically), the songs tend to live or die depending on the strength of the drum programming, which is odd.
― Room 227 (cryptosicko), Thursday, 22 November 2012 06:21 (eleven years ago) link
I've not really wanted to go back to this that much of late but I might have a go at making a remix comp this evening.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 22 November 2012 10:13 (eleven years ago) link
"Still Love Me" sounds too much like Annie Lennox for me
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 22 November 2012 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
the joe goddard remix of "night light" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Thursday, 22 November 2012 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
There's been some very smart remix commissioning by Jessie Ware's people, in contrast to Lana Del Rey's label, which seems to have commissioned so many that even the good ones (eg Lindstrom, Photek, AlunaGeorge) have got lost in the pile.
― Deafening silence (DL), Friday, 23 November 2012 10:25 (eleven years ago) link
That makes sense though, Jessie Ware is embedded in a scene and building a profile in the dance world as well as the pop world, in a way that Lana Del Rey isn't.
― Matt DC, Friday, 23 November 2012 10:27 (eleven years ago) link
Oh sure, it definitely makes sense, but there seems to be no rhyme or reason to the LDR remixes. You can't even buy most of them - they're just floating about.
― Deafening silence (DL), Friday, 23 November 2012 10:50 (eleven years ago) link
Haha I thought that "just floating about" was the default state for pop/indie remixes. The idea that anyone might actually pay money for most of them never really occurred to me.
― Matt DC, Friday, 23 November 2012 10:52 (eleven years ago) link
I like paying when I can (eg Ewan Pearson's Ware remix) because it helps the remixer get more work. But I'm old and like paying for music so there's that.
― Deafening silence (DL), Friday, 23 November 2012 10:54 (eleven years ago) link
Aeroplane told me that major labels deliberately overcommission remixes on spec, knowing that the ones they turn down and refuse to pay for will end up online anyway via the remixer and get them free publicity and kudos. That's what happened with their MGMT remix. It's a lousy trick, although we benefit either way.
― Deafening silence (DL), Friday, 23 November 2012 10:56 (eleven years ago) link