Alfred hasn't linked his review? http://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2014/10/14/jessie-ware-lydia-loveless/
― dow, Sunday, 19 October 2014 14:34 (nine years ago) link
My attempts on Twitter:Jessie Ware Tough Love impulse vs. control sometimes a draw, but focus sure can spark, esp. bootheel & leverage of "Say You Love Me." DJs!
Jessie Ware, Tough Love cont. Descendant of Prince, Sinead, Sade, understandably cautious vs candid stream: http://n.pr/1phv7BE That's NPR's First Listen, so prob inactive when alb released domestically. Really like the title track and several, maybe most others, though overall proximity/familiarity might be less of an impact-buffer if heard as singles, EPs than a whole album at once (though only LP length, which is good)
― dow, Sunday, 19 October 2014 14:45 (nine years ago) link
Like she doesn't want dramatic tension of impulse vs. control, candor vs. caution to turn into drama in the pejorative sense
― dow, Sunday, 19 October 2014 14:48 (nine years ago) link
or even perjorative
― dow, Sunday, 19 October 2014 14:50 (nine years ago) link
Disproportionately irritated at Miguel for lazily reusing the Jamie, Johnny and Jack line here.
― Matt DC, Sunday, October 19, 2014 6:03 AM Bookmark
if Smokey could reuse his Pagliacci line...
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 05:01 (nine years ago) link
rest of album around it + listing of names + the kinda inverted commas plastic cosyness of their delivery (not actually hitting the bottle, just cute songwriting for "i feel sad" vs miguel's original flamboyant dress-up biker blues) somehow gives that line a weird mondeo-pop side effect of evoking 'running in the family' or 'johnny & mary' or something idk
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 09:45 (nine years ago) link
she sings them like she's singing about an old MOR pop group. "crosby stills & nash" or something
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 09:46 (nine years ago) link
like, i knew the orig miguel line but just didn't parse it as that for several listens on this
speaking of, it would feel cruel to bump miguel's own thread, but omgggg his chemical bros collab for the hunger games soundtrack is so bad
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 09:47 (nine years ago) link
hahahahahaha listening now it is badder than i could ever dream
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 09:55 (nine years ago) link
Tough Love samples Little Red Corvette, right?
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 17:31 (nine years ago) link
So far, I think my favorite song on Tough Love is "Want Your Feeling," and yes, I know that is the one cowritten by Dev Hynes.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 17:41 (nine years ago) link
Share it all and Midnight caller are better than half of the album.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 22:55 (nine years ago) link
nah, The Way We Are is clearly the best bonus track
― Number None, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 23:42 (nine years ago) link
"midnight caller" is properly incredible, the other bonus tracks are pretty forgettable (in that i have already forgotten them)
"12" is lovely as well
all in all i think this is probably more of a disappointment than little red, which at least had a pretty good album hiding in a botched package, and one that seemed its own satisfying, if muted, thing - the few genuine highlights on tough love make the rest of it seem worse because they stick out so much
― lex pretend, Thursday, 23 October 2014 07:46 (nine years ago) link
like, the less immediate/hooky cuts on devotion did a really good job of bolstering "wildest moments", "running" etc. calms between the storms but cut from similar enough cloth that it all flowed really satisfyingly. here, cuts like "you & i" and "cruel" are ok, adequate, but between "tough love" and "champagne kisses" it's like, what's the point of these again?
― lex pretend, Thursday, 23 October 2014 07:49 (nine years ago) link
Crossover.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 October 2014 11:05 (nine years ago) link
i thought that was the point of "say you love me" (blech) and "pieces". who will "you & i" or "cruel" cross over to?
― lex pretend, Thursday, 23 October 2014 11:10 (nine years ago) link
"cruel" just makes me think of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUH5C_EKYKY
which i guess was also a crossover attempt, although not one that worked
― lex pretend, Thursday, 23 October 2014 11:13 (nine years ago) link
idg the response to this record at all. it seems totally of a piece to me, even moreso than Devotion? (although the highlights aren't as high) "Wildest Moments" sounded more like a crossover attempt to me than anything on this record.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 23 October 2014 20:02 (nine years ago) link
Wildest Moments is the only Jessie Ware song I've ever heard that I don't like.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 23 October 2014 20:04 (nine years ago) link
Everything else from both albums is a keeper.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 23 October 2014 20:05 (nine years ago) link
you're the only Johnny I know that I don't like.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 October 2014 20:07 (nine years ago) link
I'm not huge on it, definitely my least favorite of the singles from Devotion xp
― The Reverend, Thursday, 23 October 2014 20:09 (nine years ago) link
it seems to be the least 'jessie ware' of all her songs if you know what i mean but i still like it. anyway this album is a keeper imo.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 23 October 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
"Wildest Moments" is as inessential as "You & I" but it's a lot more listenable.
― sweet lids of the stars (seandalai), Thursday, 23 October 2014 23:23 (nine years ago) link
even though i don't think this album is perfect i find it very listenable and it'll still be among my year end favourites. my hope is that she'll be a little bit more adventurous with album 3 given that this second one hasn't set the charts ablaze like maybe she thought it might.
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Friday, 24 October 2014 00:54 (nine years ago) link
shift k3y remixes "you & i forever" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcG1UyziP0w
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Saturday, 15 November 2014 06:24 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS0c-bE6RWs
predz absolutely duppied this, so good
― r|t|c, Saturday, 15 November 2014 12:24 (nine years ago) link
I love every goddamn song on this album.
― Tay-Tay Brooklynpants (Murgatroid), Sunday, 30 November 2014 21:04 (nine years ago) link
same
― burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb ranks (The Reverend), Sunday, 30 November 2014 22:41 (nine years ago) link
the rhythm track on the title tune is taken right from "little red corvette"
i approve
― I dunno. (amateurist), Monday, 1 December 2014 04:31 (nine years ago) link
whole album is a grower IMO
Sweetest Song was my favorite from the first time I heard it, so much so that I probably neglected really enjoying the rest of the record. When seandalai made mention of Champagne Kisses the other, I heard it with fresh ears and now it's also my favorite. I expect every other song to become a co-favorite before long.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 1 December 2014 04:35 (nine years ago) link
i don't hate any song on this record but idk
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 1 December 2014 05:36 (nine years ago) link
"champagne kisses" is wondrous in a very expected way but the one true revelation on this is the title track imo
― lex pretend, Monday, 1 December 2014 10:45 (nine years ago) link
xp otm :-/
― fgti jaq, it's chinavision! (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 1 December 2014 13:47 (nine years ago) link
I'll have to give this one another listen but it didn't hold together as a record anywhere near as well as devotion did, for me.
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Monday, 1 December 2014 13:58 (nine years ago) link
the one true revelation on this is the title track imo
otm
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 1 December 2014 16:52 (nine years ago) link
I love "You and I Forever" – the bets Miggy guest appearance since his bit on the Monae single.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 December 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
i don't like that song at all
"kind of sometimes maybe" was a true revelation for me (good song to listen to loud) & "keep on lying" is a great tune
― J0rdan S., Monday, 1 December 2014 17:00 (nine years ago) link
though you guys reminded me i had never listened to the bonus tracks. i love "all on you"! really precise post-disco approximation
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 1 December 2014 17:10 (nine years ago) link
"Midnight Caller"!
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 December 2014 17:15 (nine years ago) link
was also surprised to find myself liking the romy song this time
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 1 December 2014 18:01 (nine years ago) link
title track is the most effortlessly replayable song of the year for me
― anonanon, Monday, 1 December 2014 18:41 (nine years ago) link
like it generates no friction so it requires no expenditure of energy to listen repeatedly, lost track of my plays at this point
― anonanon, Monday, 1 December 2014 18:45 (nine years ago) link
"Pieces" threatens to turn into Rod Stewart's "My Heart Can't Tell You No" every time the chorus strings bend in a certain melodic direction.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 December 2014 22:46 (nine years ago) link
"kind of sometimes maybe" was a true revelation for me
yahhh this is the best song imo
― burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb ranks (The Reverend), Monday, 1 December 2014 23:20 (nine years ago) link
that arpeggio!
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 December 2014 23:24 (nine years ago) link
the album is def. too long, and it has the same problem as the first album IMO, which is that for all the precise and seductive arrangements the songwriting is often just too thin to sustain as much interest as it should. but she works in a really tricky idiom, and i'm just sort of grateful for what she has achieved. and the title track is wonderful..
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 01:50 (nine years ago) link
this album isn't too long at all!
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 01:55 (nine years ago) link