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

whoa "night light" is pretty heavy

ha i kind of liked that rap btw

goole, this is just based one listen. he seemed to trip over his flow in spots, little awkward

listen #2 begins now

grrrr fuck this 12" extended dub mix of 'no to love' where is the proper song???

i repeat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqwEPbS71ME

grrrr fuck this 12" extended dub mix of 'no to love' where is the proper song???

― r|t|c, Thursday, August 16, 2012 11:51 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hmm? Are you saying they included the 12" extended dub mix on the actual album?

also yeah still don't like the rap verse

i was inferring that that's what it sounds like it is in comparison to the live renditions

rtc do you mean the slight over-emphasis in her singing? the way she sort of says "doncing" in 110 per cent annoys me a bit.

This is the usual hazard for posh stage school types trying their hardest not to sound American.

I like this album a lot more than I expected to after the mimsiness of 110%, although serious rolleyes at Tim Jonze's review in the Guardian being all "LOOK, not bland winebar toss, she likes dubstep and Julio Bashmore!" when the best moments are are where the, ahem "UK bass" influence gets out of the way and lets the song breathe a bit.

I've only just heard Finest Moments for the first time. Did they hammer this during victorious video montages during the Olympics because it feels like it's been consciously written for them.

jonze also uses Springsteen as a negative reference point for no discernible reason other than he just wanted to take a shot at Springsteen, bizarre

Whether Ware's early experience as a football reporter – even covering matches for the Jewish Chronicle – helped her hone a simple, direct style is impossible to say. What's undeniable, though, is the fact that Ware has the sweetest vocal style yet to emerge from anyone who previously attended the crucial Boreham Wood v Arsenal XI friendly.

He's trying really hard to be Alexis Petridis bless him.

Best New Music on PFM.

and yet i can't find a copy that isn't the stream yet. sigh

it's out there

but like, not for purchase?

i think it's officially released on the 20th

baby in our wildest moomins

― r|t|c, Monday, June 18, 2012 8:36 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol u fucker, ruined it

No it's out that way too, Alex. Holler at me.

no i meant. it's not available for purchase.

i was LOOKING for it on legal purchase type places and it's not out. but it's been reviewed. which confused me.

probably means it'll be out next week? The reviews are in advance of the album.

hm. yeah. p4k confused me b/c b/c normally p4k reviews come out when albums do and not with advanced lead times. no?

yeah i think p4k wanted to make sure it was ahead of others on this one

which is cynical maybe but still

i tracked it down tho

i really love the first & last tracks on this

Released on the 20th, apparently:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/wwhf

wau @ the guitars in "Night Light." It's like an early eighties Stevie Nicks song.

i'm still trying to digest this. some of this (mostly the tracks already released) are like "greatest shit ever" territory... but some of the album tracks fare better than others. there's a weird loudness to some of them that kinda puts me off. all that said, still easily my #2 album of the year so far.

I don't like the title track as much as you -- it's all overtones.

what's your #1 J0rdan?

i think it's a good opener... "taking in water" is probably the one i fuck w/ the least, and "no to love" is a bit on the nose

xp frank ocean, pretty easily. new miguel & new xx albums are the only ones on the horizon that i can see unseating it

holy shit @ at the cello in "Something Inside."

dawn richard??

xp

dawn album is more in the 8-12 range for me probably

sometimes i really don't understand your taste

me either

dope song

in "Wildest Moments" does she sing "do wrongs no rights" or "two wrongs"?

The latter, I hope. It's what I've sung to myself for three weeks.

it's definitely the latter

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

i cry erytim
elusi0nx in reply to lizrocks123 (Show the comment) 1 month ago

cool venue

I really want to like this, but I can't stop laughing at the Yacht-Rock guitar solos.

nah, those are awesome

They are awesome, yes, but so absolutely inexplicable in the midst of all those "been around the world ay-yai-yai" orchestral stabs that they are also hilarious.

gonna pop in and see her at rough trade east tonight

'Night Light' is the killer here, sounds like it could have sat in the middle section of the last Beyonce album.

It sounded like Laura Brannigan to me. Not a complaint, BTW, it's just odd how sounds get recycled and reshaped. I'm just old enough to have heard those sounds move from cool to naff to cool again through varying cycles.

some good songs on this, but ultimately it sounds too much like adele/florence with vocals way too high in the mix.

"night light" was the tipping point for me, and i like beyoncé, it's the british 00s pop vibe of this that bothers me.

I often have a knee-jerk aversion to a lot of British pop/soul—there's something about the sterility of the production, the overloud-ness of the vocals and the general air of politeness that just totally puts me off—so I'm really relieved by how much I've liked everything I've heard from this album. Enjoying how tasteful and restrained most of it is (though the title track is maybe too cute by half).

No American release, though? I can't even find a stream of it anymore. Kinda odd that the American press is tripping over themselves to praise an album that most of its readers can't hear and might not be able to hear for some time.