Jessie Ware - 110% (and everything else she's done)

devotion title track rules

Yeah, I love the title track. It works perfectly as a build up to Wildest Moments. No To Love and Still Love Me are the weakest songs, but I still wouldn't call them duds.

the only dud imo is "pieces" on TOUGH LOVE -- otherwise they all bang in one way or another

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8T9vB1zIVM

Not sure about this one. Weird single choice.

yeah i'm with ya, totally on the fence

I really like this, Sade's always been an obvious comparison point but this is proper Smooth Operator wine lodge vibes.

Video is 10/10 too, clearly going for hype via ~controversy~ but I think she pulls it off.

sounds like...... lovefool??

It reminds me more of Miss Chatelaine by K.D. Lang.

at first blush I was reminded of Tom Waits/ Lana Del Rey, perhaps that's a litle OTT

It reminds me of "Twist in My Sobriety" with a bossa laid on top.

lol i thought lovefool too

like it tho, all her last album tended to be grower for me

I think it's better than "Midnight".

The third album is called Glasshouse - out "very soon" according to instagram

Just saw on the Popjustice forum that there is a song on the new album called The Last Of The Believers that features Paul Buchanan! That's a dream collaboration right there.

are you fucking kidding me

i'll die immediately when i hear that song

https://www.instagram.com/p/BY-m1Xcg-8f/?hl=en&taken-by=jessieware

The Blue Nile ❤❤❤

— Jessie Ware (@JessieWare) September 30, 2012

didn't they write together before Tough Love but nothing made the album? that's great news

Just found this from 2013 where she mentions revealing her new single co-written with Paul.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/the-week-in-music-jessie-ware-is-still-pulling-all-the-strings-8970990.html

One of the results from my Google search also took me to The 1975 thread on here where someone mentioned that she was the one who introduced Matt to The Blue Nile. Good work Jessie!

oh the song she performed then was 'True Believers' so it must be the same one

Whoa @ Blue Nile collab

And the album is out on October 20th

https://itunes.apple.com/nz/album/glasshouse-deluxe-edition/id1277731802

imo this is her best album though it won't set this board on fire in the same way devotion did, prob bc this board is v different now and also she doesn't really occupy a connective space between dance music and quiet storm anymore. but like every track is good to excellent and rewards attention, even the sheeran track, again, which is mercifully the final song on the record and the arrangement takes it to such a cool, unexpected place that i don't mind that it's the same circular melody sheeran generates automatically/unconsciously whenever he picks up a guitar. paul buchanan track is probably exactly what a modern blue nile song would sound like; i find it crushing

I'm excited to hear the live band tracks with Chris Dave and Pino, although on 'Selfish Love' they sound tastefully anonymous.

Buying this on release day, and will again if there's a bonus track reissue next year. Good to hear it feels like her best yet.

Ugh, I need this album now.

oh you can listen to "sam," the sheeran track, on streaming services now. you'll get what i mean

God is that Sheeran track awful. A slow generic ballad with a Jessie Ware on sleeping pills. What happened to her? This has absolutely nothing to do with the Jessie Ware I knew. As if she had aged by 30 years from one day to the other. Where is the spark and sexiness gone?

lol ok alex

i'm sure this was not your intention but to listen to a woman performing pop music and remark initially on her seeming age and the absence of spark and sexiness is... not great, imo. besides the other songs on this record (i.e. not the closer) contain what you seek

Yeah I'm on board with all the pre-release tracks so far save for "Sam" which to me has the air of Sheeran writing his usual stream-of-consciousness gush over the melody to "Fields of Gold". But I've really liked the art direction generally for this era (the videos have included some serious interior design porn) and I'm confident it will be an enjoyable listen on the whole

“sam” is great. pino palladino on bass.

Sam is giving me Nana/She Lays Down vibes. I'm hoping the penultimate song with Paul Buchanan can act as the Paris of the album and be the closer that the album deserves.

let me reassure you kitchen person: it is

Can't wait!

I like how much she swears

https://pitchfork.com/tv/22-over-under/watch-jessie-ware-rate-ed-sheeran-eating-placenta-and-50-shades-of-grey/

lmao that Over/Under is fucking great

I've never seen anyone less amused by the conceit and it rules

lmao her ed sheeran answer. lmaoooooo

that was a great watch. shes funny

when i saw her live i think everyone in the crowd was expecting someone more self-serious, but she was exactly like she is in that video.

Agreed on the over/under love. Much respect for backing her friend.

My favourite bit is, "I'm also on the soundtrack".

that's what she's like live in between songs

just a naturally funny and down to earth person

Yeah another echo to the "she's like that live" brigade.

Saw her on devotion tour, she's so classic - can't wait to hear the new one

lmao that Over/Under is fucking great

^^

the two bonus tracks on the deluxe edition are amazing

ALBUM OF THE YEAR