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

'Please' sounds great! I am excited by more Ware!

okay i just realized what i'm hearing/projecting underneath 'Please'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsjlSYGcU5w

it kind of reminds me a little of the inferior and utterly obscure 80s track called “Wild Girls” by Rori, but to be honest that’s just indicative of a whole swathe of shimmery dancefloor oriented pop from the time. i love the space she allows for the track between lines, i love the fuckin HARMONIES.

more than a bit of Madonna’s “Open Your Heart” added to this stew too i reckon

it's so good

please me please me

we can make it mutual

the chorus harmonies and the minor key rhythm guitar remind me of .. talking heads

single of the decade imo

finally checked this out and oh my god, how is she always so good?

oh my goddddddd @ this Club MTV moment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-31FETutIr4

so GOOD

brb gonna dance

Haven't heard to the new song yet but I did finally listen to the album after enjoying the 3 tracks from the top 77. man, the album is something else, remarkable consistency. Think I'll wait for the platinum version and plunk down some cash

Perhaps a dull observation but that's some extremely Prince guitar that starts showing up in the chorus. I don't want to be reductive because the whole thing works as its own thing - but it is very much a late-80s love letter. George Michael would have loved it!

specifically "kiss"

oh i don't know just spitballing. it also reminds me of talking heads. they did that minor key blues rhythm guitar lick all over the early stuff.

the 'ooo ooooo aye-ya-yaye" bit is very "all night long (all night)"

i love this thing that she's on where it's all about the little bits of fliration that happen before any physical contact. classy and romantic but still great fun.

come to think of it, the harmonies in the chorus (which are what MAKE the track imo) also sound a little bit like remain-in-light era talking heads, but like joyful rather than aggressive and cocaine-y.

the video seems like it's in conversation with roisin's 'plaything' video (which is superior imo but i mean it's hard to top)

“Hot N Heavy” is another stunner.

need

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

yeah wow, ridiculous that her outtakes are this good, why wasn't it just straight up a double album lol

yes, both these tracks are as good as most anything on the album

jeez, dance floor anthem if i've ever heard one

omg "Eyes Closed"

oh my god "pale blue light"

all these songs are so good, she really should have released it as a double album straight up lol

wish there was just one more track released from these sessions so i could sequence a perfectly symmetrical double album

I don’t know, I listened to this today and apart from the two pre-released songs and “Overtime” I was like “these are fun but I get why they were cut from the album.” I mean it’s all great but I think a much longer album would have been exhausting. I think she has broadly made the right call here.

well yeah, it would have been exhausting as any 90 minute album would be exhausting but still, they're all as good as the songs on the actual album

the material here is so good that i think she could have gotten away with it is the thing

The songs are all good enough to be a standalone mini-lp/ep instead of the bonus material on a deluxe reissue, but $$$

Loooving "Hot and Heavy", what a vibe. Could have easily seen this as a double album, the quality of these eight tracks is high

highlight of the bonus tracks might be "0208" for me, yet again I'm perplexed by ILX's indifference to Kindness

The Kindness debut album is perhaps one of my favorite albums of the 2010’s and much of it is how it sounds. I’m not sure if it’s because Erol Alkan was involved or what happened afterwards that I haven’t been as attracted to his music ever since. Maybe I just changed. I still play the debut often, though.

ILM likes him iirc?

Y'all have sold me on checking it out

i've never really listened to kindness's solo work but i probably should considering how consistently strong he is as a collaborator

just want to mention that Kindness uses they/them

thx breastcrawl

Happy birthday!

Got excited there for a minute

Well, you should be excited. What's your pleasure, groovypanda

My keepers.

still waiting for her song w/ Kylie

My keepers.

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Listened to "Wildest Moments" this AM -- still kills.

*PLEASE* watch this

https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ej34mb/play/ac3mn3/p0c8xzb5

Heh -- I came here to post the very thing.

She played a new song that may or may not be called "Free Yourself" which sounds like a MASSIVE banger

Not being able to access the BBC iPlayer in the US has really been frustrating this weekend.

Some tracks are getting uploaded here:

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

Also check here.. Not sure if this is limited to the UK

https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ej34mb/play/ac3mn3/p0c8xzb5

Oh I see that link was just posted. soz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6keIr9AhMY

very shitty recording of the broadcast audio of "free yourself" here, very promising despite the quality