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

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
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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.

it's on spotify

Not in American, sadly (or at least not on my account)

i've got it and i'm def in america! maybe look again?

oh, not anymore! weird. maybe they took it down?

try to listen to it thru this playlist? http://open.spotify.com/user/mordys/playlist/2WPKGFgC5xncEu6AfY5gTe

i threw it on there earlier today when it was available and i can still listen to it through there...

Hey, that works! Thanks man! Great playlist, too

"Taking in Water" and "Something Inside" are one hell of a closing punch.

yep

4/5 on resident advisor? makes me want to check it out! what's the best track?

the one in the title of this thread

for RA's purposes

Interview:

http://www.billboard.com/column/the-juice/jessie-ware-talks-breakthrough-devotion-1007883152.story#/column/the-juice/jessie-ware-talks-breakthrough-devotion-1007883152.story

Spent some time with this and it's not quite my thing—the quiet-stormy tracks are pure bliss, but the pop tracks ring empty to me. It's an impressive album, of course, and she obviously has remarkable control over her aesthetic, but I'm not finding a strong songwriting voice to carry me through the record. Is there one there, or am I missing the point? Are there any good reviews/interviews that explore her songwriting? That Billboard interview was more about process than content.

I wish this album hadn't come out right in the middle of two giant list-generating exercises with massive associated playlists because I would like to spend some more time with this album before I make a decision on it. But there is so much amazing music to listen to in the world right now!

This is probably one of those albums I'm going to come back to in a year, after all the hype has passed and be all "Damn, you know, this was a really good album."

bonus tracks are dope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ1-EAZ2eYA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-ltza7hYls

ooooooh, the Bobby Caldwell cover is excellent.

oh i was wondering where "strangest feeling" was!

Hmmm.

seems fair? many points already made here in fact.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDg4tcZpYS8

was just saying on the other thread about this kinda sound maybe already running its course

what other thread?

i like this album a lot. it's bigger splashier moments are sort of wearing thin tho. the overt classy pro soul stuff is not reading exactly as meant to me after a week or so. but the album tracks are getting better. "no to love", "swan song", "sweet talk".

i think at its best there is a grown-up playacting quality to it that is very endearing. i mean, "i'm taking water, my brother, remember" has a little bit of slam poet about it. 27 isn't that young tho...

no it's literally about her brother