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...
― Mordy, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
Hey, that works! Thanks man! Great playlist, too
― Evan R, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
"Taking in Water" and "Something Inside" are one hell of a closing punch.
― heiswagger (rennavate), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
yep
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
4/5 on resident advisor? makes me want to check it out! what's the best track?
― the late great, Thursday, 23 August 2012 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
the one in the title of this thread
― Number None, Thursday, 23 August 2012 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
for RA's purposes
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 August 2012 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
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
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 August 2012 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Evan R, Thursday, 23 August 2012 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
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."
― my god it's full of straw (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 23 August 2012 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
bonus tracks are dope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ1-EAZ2eYA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-ltza7hYls
― sisilafami, Friday, 31 August 2012 00:28 (eleven years ago) link
ooooooh, the Bobby Caldwell cover is excellent.
― The Reverend, Friday, 31 August 2012 00:36 (eleven years ago) link
oh i was wondering where "strangest feeling" was!
― lex pretend, Friday, 31 August 2012 10:07 (eleven years ago) link
Hmmm.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 September 2012 17:52 (eleven years ago) link
seems fair? many points already made here in fact.
― r|t|c, Monday, 10 September 2012 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDg4tcZpYS8
was just saying on the other thread about this kinda sound maybe already running its course
― r|t|c, Monday, 10 September 2012 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
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...
― goole, Monday, 10 September 2012 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
no it's literally about her brother
― lex pretend, Monday, 10 September 2012 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
really not feeling anything by alunageorge i've heard
― lex pretend, Monday, 10 September 2012 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
I keep trying to get into this, and the first couple songs I hear are very slick and nice and sound good, and then it all just slides away from my ears and I can't listen to it any more. I cannot seem to get through the album in one go. I'm sorry.
― Atomow dhe Kres? MY A VYNN, mar pleg! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Monday, 10 September 2012 19:16 (eleven years ago) link
I'm not sure we can forgive you.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 September 2012 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
I'll go boil my head.
― Atomow dhe Kres? MY A VYNN, mar pleg! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Monday, 10 September 2012 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
― lex pretend, Monday, September 10, 2012 2:14 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oh.
― goole, Monday, 10 September 2012 19:23 (eleven years ago) link
fuck the backlash this album is gorgeous and really affecting too. it's devastating and if it doesn't connect with you, fine, but oh man this is more than just inoffensive dinner music to me. ugh
― heiswagger (rennavate), Monday, 10 September 2012 21:52 (eleven years ago) link
i wish things skewed more towards the lighter, less bombastic side, like "110%" and the opening and closing track. also there's a few times where it'a bit too much for me... esp "WHO WOULD SAY NO TO LOVE???"
but i'm just nitpicking. this is a sure top 5 i think for me.
― young money color me badd (J0rdan S.), Monday, 10 September 2012 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
"No to Love" is one of the duff tracks yeah
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 September 2012 22:15 (eleven years ago) link
I have to confess a growing unease with romantic/erotic vastation; last year it took a few weeks to love the Marsha Ambrosius, for example. But in Ware's case the cavernous sound is an ideal musical correlative.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 September 2012 22:19 (eleven years ago) link
"110%" is too cutesy and always throws off the vibe of the rest of the album when it comes on imo. "Running" and "Sweet Talk" are amazing tho.
― The Reverend, Monday, 10 September 2012 22:42 (eleven years ago) link
"running" is the one that hits hardest for me
i like "110%" a lot but it's a bit toooo obvious what she's going for
― lex pretend, Monday, 10 September 2012 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
still haven't warmed to "110%."
On the other hand the title track sounds effective.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 September 2012 22:46 (eleven years ago) link
the run from sweet talk through to the end is just sublime
― monotony, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 02:11 (eleven years ago) link
^^^ EXACTLY RIGHT!
― teledyldonix, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 02:50 (eleven years ago) link
i've also been grappling w/ the fact that they released all the best songs before the album dropped
― young money color me badd (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 03:07 (eleven years ago) link
that's not all that out of the ordinary surely? esp for pop albums?
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 10:08 (eleven years ago) link
'Night Light' is better than most of the pre-release songs.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 10:12 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that's one of the best and wasn't leaked
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 10:58 (eleven years ago) link
with the 2 bonus tracks, i have a ratio of 9 great songs out of 13.
― sisilafami, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 11:36 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't know of her before the album dropped. Besides being sucked in with "Sweet Talk" and immediately downloading the rest, I hadn't heard anything.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 00:04 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah Sweet Talk is great, it's got a bounce to it that's absent in most of the rest of the album.
Still Love Me is the real clunker here I think. That and No To Love coming one after another so early in the record really messes with the album's flow.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 09:07 (eleven years ago) link
the album dramatically improved for me once i realised that those two were the ones to just skip
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 11:45 (eleven years ago) link
it took me ages to get round to hearing the singles so the timing, in that they were just clicking with me as i got to hear the full album, worked out perfectly
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 11:46 (eleven years ago) link
I like both those songs a lot, esp "No To Love"
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
"Night Light" hit me like a ton of bricks on the way home from work today. Arrangment, production, melody...shit is HEAVY DUTY.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 20 September 2012 00:56 (eleven years ago) link
feel like the singles are the stand outs and there's lot of filler on here. Still relatively enjoyable though. Amazing voice
― marginal victory, Thursday, 20 September 2012 04:50 (eleven years ago) link
i find the diversity of opinion re: the quality of the singles compared to the rest of the tracks interesting
― teledyldonix, Thursday, 20 September 2012 08:17 (eleven years ago) link
five of 11 tracks have been singles now, right? six if you include "strangest feeling".
― lex pretend, Thursday, 20 September 2012 08:26 (eleven years ago) link
All these so-called post-dubsteppers, RnB-deconstructivists, indie-beatmakers etc., it's all really some form of (neo)trip-hop, don't you think? Or is that reductionist? It's not meant as an insult.. I like many of these artists, Jessie Ware among them.
― Mule, Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
To my ears Ware hovers outside trip-hop, closer to Blue Lines-era Massive Attack
― taking tiger mountain (up the butt) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
I've always considered Blue Lines trip-hop (because of after the fact-categorization, probably, I was 7 in '91) so I guess we agree on Ware, then.
― Mule, Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:55 (eleven years ago) link
Something about the poses she strikes reminds me of Shara Nelson: mechanized soul with space for a billowy presence.
― taking tiger mountain (up the butt) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 September 2012 21:57 (eleven years ago) link