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

Just found this from 2013 where she mentions revealing her new single co-written with Paul.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/the-week-in-music-jessie-ware-is-still-pulling-all-the-strings-8970990.html

One of the results from my Google search also took me to The 1975 thread on here where someone mentioned that she was the one who introduced Matt to The Blue Nile. Good work Jessie!

oh the song she performed then was 'True Believers' so it must be the same one

Whoa @ Blue Nile collab

And the album is out on October 20th

https://itunes.apple.com/nz/album/glasshouse-deluxe-edition/id1277731802

imo this is her best album though it won't set this board on fire in the same way devotion did, prob bc this board is v different now and also she doesn't really occupy a connective space between dance music and quiet storm anymore. but like every track is good to excellent and rewards attention, even the sheeran track, again, which is mercifully the final song on the record and the arrangement takes it to such a cool, unexpected place that i don't mind that it's the same circular melody sheeran generates automatically/unconsciously whenever he picks up a guitar. paul buchanan track is probably exactly what a modern blue nile song would sound like; i find it crushing

I'm excited to hear the live band tracks with Chris Dave and Pino, although on 'Selfish Love' they sound tastefully anonymous.

Buying this on release day, and will again if there's a bonus track reissue next year. Good to hear it feels like her best yet.

Ugh, I need this album now.

oh you can listen to "sam," the sheeran track, on streaming services now. you'll get what i mean

God is that Sheeran track awful. A slow generic ballad with a Jessie Ware on sleeping pills. What happened to her? This has absolutely nothing to do with the Jessie Ware I knew. As if she had aged by 30 years from one day to the other. Where is the spark and sexiness gone?

lol ok alex

i'm sure this was not your intention but to listen to a woman performing pop music and remark initially on her seeming age and the absence of spark and sexiness is... not great, imo. besides the other songs on this record (i.e. not the closer) contain what you seek

Yeah I'm on board with all the pre-release tracks so far save for "Sam" which to me has the air of Sheeran writing his usual stream-of-consciousness gush over the melody to "Fields of Gold". But I've really liked the art direction generally for this era (the videos have included some serious interior design porn) and I'm confident it will be an enjoyable listen on the whole

“sam” is great. pino palladino on bass.

Sam is giving me Nana/She Lays Down vibes. I'm hoping the penultimate song with Paul Buchanan can act as the Paris of the album and be the closer that the album deserves.

let me reassure you kitchen person: it is

Can't wait!

I like how much she swears

https://pitchfork.com/tv/22-over-under/watch-jessie-ware-rate-ed-sheeran-eating-placenta-and-50-shades-of-grey/

lmao that Over/Under is fucking great

I've never seen anyone less amused by the conceit and it rules

lmao her ed sheeran answer. lmaoooooo

that was a great watch. shes funny

when i saw her live i think everyone in the crowd was expecting someone more self-serious, but she was exactly like she is in that video.

Agreed on the over/under love. Much respect for backing her friend.

My favourite bit is, "I'm also on the soundtrack".

that's what she's like live in between songs

just a naturally funny and down to earth person

Yeah another echo to the "she's like that live" brigade.

Saw her on devotion tour, she's so classic - can't wait to hear the new one

lmao that Over/Under is fucking great

^^

the two bonus tracks on the deluxe edition are amazing

ALBUM OF THE YEAR

the two bonus tracks on the deluxe edition are amazing

yeah "Love To Love" might even be my favourite of the unreleased songs! that or the obvious banger "Your Domino"

"love to love" sounded like the best song on the album to me yeah

Your Domino is the one. Definitely should have been the lead single.

hyped for this, definitely going to get the deluxe edition. the bonus tracks on Tough Love were incredible i thought.

If "Your Domino" had been the lead single I think there would've been enormous disappointment once the album itself arrived as nothing else even approaches its pace.

Yeah, you're right. It is a one off.

Just finished my first listen and I'm really surprised how much I enjoyed this. I loved Midnight, but the other singles didn't grab me that much. Even though it's her most mellow record, I found it so much more instant than Tough Love which took a long time to click (there's a couple of songs that still haven't).

My main complaint is that there isn't enough Paul Buchanan. It's a gorgeous song, I just wanted to hear his presence more.

who knew that a song like "your domino" could exist in these times! pure bliss.

right there with you re: the lack of paul buchanan

Finish What We Started is gorgeous, my favourite on first listen

Thoughtful of her to have stuck the Sheeran collaboration right at the end this time.

like i said

“your domino” is great obv but at the moment i am very high on “stay awake wait for me”

oh wow the bonus tracks are wonderful

i was like "the only flaw with this record is nothing (except 'first time' maybe) is really on the level of 'champagne kisses'" and then i heard "love to love"

y'all need to stop

some interesting collaborators on this... "slow me down" was done w/ the guy who did "love on the brain," "finish what we started" w/ john ryan & julien bunetta of one direction fame

last of the true believers was co-written & produced by two of the maccabees??

this sounds quite good so far. I'm surprised some of these chordally simple songs have as many as six co-writers.

every collaborator adds a new chord

This album is not good. It is kitschy schmaltz of the worst kind. No tunes, only pathetic ballads. Only good for the waste bin.