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

pro tip: this song is amazing

http://soundcloud.com/jessieware/jessie-ware-110-1

it could totally be on 'velvet rope' right??

i'm really in love with this thing

I prefer "Running," which will probably be in my top ten. My favorite guitar solo in many months too.

but, yeah, she's worth watching. She reminds me of Shara Nelson.

There's also this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-ltza7hYls

Looking forward to the album

I love the video for 110% almost as much as the song. I can't figure out what the muffled sample in the background is saying, "carving my initials on your forehead" I think?

fucking love this song. definitely deserves a thread

original 'running' felt to me way too encumbered with reference and borrowed vibes, but tbf i did come to that conclusion when i was still getting to know her (which i guess i still am). alf have you heard the disclosure remix?

'110', it wasnt really until i heard it on the radio before i realised how much it goes, it's p catchy. not sure if it's gonna be a keeper but certainly one of those brief flings you kinda fall for a bit

Love this song

yeah I've played this song 20 times since I first heard it, I love it

i've been meaning to listen to this and "running" for MONTHS and didn't get round to them because i didn't think i'd have to make an effort. here we are now though, i like them all, on one listen "running" is better and neither are as good as "strangest feeling" but who knows how they'll shake out

"running" is totally and amazingly soft rock

just checked out Strangest Feeling, must have missed it last time around, amazing too. Think she's shaping up to be my 2012 pick of the girls looking at her trajectory.

i think i might start a thread for delilah at some point, her album is really surprisingly good

"running" is totally and amazingly soft rock

― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Friday, 8 June 2012 12:06 (16 minutes ago) Bookmark

so so so tryhard sade tho

just look at the single cover even

"maybe felt a little too record industry to capture the true desired lisa stansfield realness" is what i said about my first impressions of ware generally on the bobby caldwell thread

listening to the three singles together is weird, they're all good songs but they all feel like really overly deliberate attempts to capture a certain aesthetic - sade x soft rock for "running", delilahesque trip-hop revivalism x burial 3am night bus moods for "strangest feeling", airy summery "my boo" breezy realness for "110%"

i think i perhaps like "strangest feeling" best b/c being overly conscious and deliberate suits that gothy aesthetic well

http://i.imgur.com/D0TuS.jpg

1. Devotion
2. Wildest Moments
3. Running
4. Still Love Me
5. No To Love
6. Night Light
7. Swan Song
8. Sweet Talk
9. 110%
10. Taking In Water
11. Something Inside

i wonder if i'm the only person on earth who feels sorry for jamie woon

haha the first thing i thought of when i heard "110%" was "aw, poor jamie woon"

jamie woon's album did decently, didn't it? and now he's just between albums.

capture the true desired lisa stansfield realness

i don't care man i'll take the imitation

sade is the real oak real and stansfield is the real plastic real tho, there's levels mayne

i guess what i'm saying is i am enjoying the video

yeah i dont actually know how woon's sold on the low but i dont feel his album was ever really in the air once it dropped, even in the liminal circles we're talking about. just seemed to drop and disappear

anyway i wouldnt care to speculate on what he deserved but it was definitely more than what he got. i felt like he made brave-ish decisions on that album he didnt have to if he was just playing to the gallery and it's a shame they werent acknowledged at very least

ok maybe brave is too strong but whatever, he stuck to his guns somewhat and i respect that

Produced by Julio Bashmore if you were wondering. It's blowing up, just an hour ago I heard it on a radio station in Mexico City and was wondering what ILM thought about it.

For all the reference points being thrown around here, and I know Jessie Ware's coming from a completely different place, but you could put 110% on the Grimes album and no one would notice. Its level of base competency is higher and it's a good song but I'm not sure the production does it many favours. I listened to Running straight afterwards and liked that one more.

Bit disappointed that so many of these jobbing post-dubstep vocalists seem to be defaulting to a very similar soft-rock middle ground, and yeah while it might be a brave decision up against whatever the FACT-reading bores are clamouring for, you need serious songwriting ability to pull of that aesthetic well and I dunno if any of these guys do.

Does Roses Gabor have a post-guest-vocalist career yet? That might be promising.

"running" is as good as "110%"... this might be my most anticipated album of the year atm

assuming d'angelo isn't putting an album out

Running > 110% for me, but just barely.

I hadn't been slotting Woon into this space in my brain, but now that it's been mentioned it totally makes sense.

No clue what he sold, but that album was mad underrated even on ILM, given the love for 'Night Air'. There were a LARGE number of jams there.

I love the video for 110% almost as much as the song. I can't figure out what the muffled sample in the background is saying, "carving my initials on your forehead" I think?

― boxedjoy, Friday, June 8, 2012 5:57 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You heard it right - it's a sample from Big Pun's Dream Shatterer, I think.

hmmm, not so sure about this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=FnOBjARwNi0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnOBjARwNi0

baby in our wildest moomins

i like this a lot

http://vimeo.com/38905074

hadnt seen it before but this song off the alb is the real deal

"wildest moments" is amazing

fully in love with all the singles now. i think "running" might have shaken out as my favourite so far

think i might be talking to her next week

i'm really taken with how - similar to wynter gordon's newest stuff - ware's vocal strategy is a perfect midpoint between r&b and female singer-songwriter

hmm...I heard "Stimela" and wasn't impressed.

Holy fuck her album is going to be amazing. "Sweet Talk," the latest track to be released, is ANOTHER great track. When the guitars drop in at 2:30... one of the best musical moments of the year. Man this girl's on a roll.

Can we change this thread to "general jessie ware thread" btw i think it's about time

As requested, kinda.

that works. thanks ned!

+1 for Running. Shades of Sade, tasteful trip-hop, etc.

Still I actually liked tasteful trip-hop. Makes me want to go listen to a Moloko record.

That was a good interview BTW, Lex. I wouldn't mind seeing dance music in the UK go classy again like back in the 2-step heyday.

I wouldn't mind seeing dance music in the UK go classy again like back in the 2-step heyday.

I'm not sure this sentence makes sense really? Unless by "2-step" you basically mean MJ Cole and Wookie?

Yeah, and some Dem 2 tracks and Tuff Jam.

And Craig David.

this is good

Glasshouse was great

I've loved all three of her albums, but ever since "Imagine It Was Us" I've been ready for her to release her version of Overpowered. Maybe this time I'll get it.

Glasshouseis her worst. I only kept "Your Domino."

you were perhaps just expecting something else from her

it's my fave

just as lex informed me after i wrote my review of it, obviously it's bad and sucks and i was wrong

j/k

Glasshouse is her weakest but it's still good, just not a perfect album like Devotion

She's announced she's pregnant again (!) on instagram so whatever the next project is it might still be a while away.

For me the only lowlights of Glasshouse are the Julia Michaels and Ed Sheeran co-writes, and "Slow Me Down" which is fine but lopes a little too languidly. Everything else is fabulous.

"imagine it was us" is still so great

and "Midnight Caller"!

this is so good

this is really good - the slightness of the production gives her so much space to command, there's a genericness that in lesser hands would be anonymous rather than formularic impressiveness, the point where a template becomes a model

The production on this is better than maybe 99% of dance-pop, you can tell every sonic decision has been based around sounding amazing on a club system. Bicep production in general seems to lack any particularly unique sonic identity but at the same time it's just really satisfying and well-made, like a pebble you just want to keep rolling round in your hand.

Song itself is great as well, if we get a whole album of stuff in this vein them I'm onboard (and I guess it's mostly in the can already).

glasshouse was good if a bit pedestrian, it felt like the record that threatened to "cross over" and "selfish love" felt like a much needed mash of tom waits/sade

my favourites are the bsides from tough love, which is imo her best record by miles.

new song is more wow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHKMEHT_Jus

FUCK I CANNOT WAIT FOR THIS ALBUM

YES

wow this is fucking nice

holy shit

well... if this album actually happens, aoty

literally tearing up at how gorgeous this song is

I'm quote bored with this streak of marvelous tracks. Wht happened to the uneven Ware of old?

uh wow

ZAMN ZESSIE

From her email - it seems like the disco record we've all always lusted after is very much in the pipeline but with the birth of her child imminent I don't imagine it'll be out until maybe the second half of the year at the earliest

Adore You, a brand new song for Valentine's

As is becoming a Valentine's tradition, I'm very proud and excited to offer up a Valentine's present to you all. This is Adore You. I wrote it with Joe Mount of the fantastic Metronomy on our first session together. After being such a fan of Metronomy over the years, and his work with the divine Robyn, I feel so lucky to have written this little love nugget to give to you. We wrote it in one rather rushed sitting in East London (childcare on both our parts!) and it felt better and better upon every listen even in its most raw mumbling demo form.

It feels particularly poignant to be putting this out as I'm about to embark on being a mother for the second time. I'm still making music, still loving my various jobs and so keen to share more music with you as soon as I can. However, this time around things will be different; I won't be rushing back into work, I'm going to enjoy the first mad months of newborn life and I'm not going to feel guilty about it. I have so much music ready for you but I have to be ready myself. James Ford and I have been in the studio finishing up a load of tracks and my poor family has to endure a multitude of mixes, me jumping for joy at Jules Buckley's string arrangements, replays and plenty more disco.

I have so many ideas - too many in fact - that I'm trying very enthusiastically to juggle. I shall still be in your ears, currently with our Table Manners NYC mini series that started last week and with other musical offerings. And you can hear my special birth playlist for Radio 1's Wind Down slot here. I may even use it for my own birth, sod it!! So whilst I rediscover long nights, newborn bottoms and the beauty of white noise, please enjoy this song that I too adore.

Lots of love and see you on the other side of sleepless nights, a little worse for wear but maybe a tad wiser.

Jessie X

Oh wow, this is incredible. This album is going to rule so hard.

I'm already starting to think about how incredible her best of is going to be. She's made so many of my favourite singles of the decade.

I wasn't wild about "Overtime" but this one is gorgeous

on board!

I don't know if we've talked about her podcast with her mom but it's pretty delightful at times and she's had some pretty good guests this season - Carly Rae Jepsen a few weeks ago and now Roisin Murphy

it's kind of the platonic ideal of a podcast

New song “Mirage” out now or soon depending where you are

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHz0KYb7wV8

this is going to be her best album isn't it

another breathtaking track

v Róisín

Unavailable in my country.

I hope she waits until 2020 to release the album so it gets the attention she deserves.

Stunning! The best album of 2020 already confirmed.

Okay she’s 3 for 3

Feel free to announce an album anytime soon, Jessie

The first section of the verses reminds me of "Let The Music Play" by Shannon, which could not be a finer thing to reference.

Or maybe it's "Cruel Summer" by Bananrama. Whatever that descending melody is closer to.

I can finally listen to this.

Oh wow!

Who is producing this one? Overtime was Bicep and Simian Mobile Disco, Adore You was the guy from Metronomy.

Is he using another producer in this one? It sounds amazing.

Oh I found some info/

James Ford (Simian Mobile Disco), Benji B and Matthew Travers contributed production.

I don’t know who Matthew Travers is but this sounds great.

Also why didn’t anyone tell me about this Adore You remix jeez

https://youtu.be/KbmAElwftWs

Seems to be a typo. It's Matthew Tavares, former keyboardist of BADBADNOTGOOD.

another thread.

keep on posting

lol I mean another thread that WORKS at the moment

ok we need to piece the clues together, what connects these threads?

😎

jessie ware 2020

ok we need to piece the clues together, what connects these threads?

I suspected it was insanely too long threads that were working, but DMB why so bad + hated isn't working.