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

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.

Meaningless post.

well obv this album is going to own

i came here to post the Over/Under, she is amazing

thanks alex

i kinda agree. love jessie's personality, and ok the """confessional""" lyrics here, but miss the intimacy (and palette) of her earlier records. this is all very spotlit and vampy.

the best songs are def the ones people have highlighted - "domino" etc. but they lack the rare colour of light i got from songs like "12", "wildest moments", "110%" etc. reading laura's interview in the guardian, maybe what i liked best about Jessie's music was a sound imposed on her from without?

how is this any different?

are you serious? there's tons of brass and shiny backing vocals and blah blah blah. something like "midnight" is at times halfway to benny and the jets

(benny and the jets is great! but it's big-show commercial pop music in a way that "110%" abjectly was not

To my ears the sonic imprints haven't changed except by infinitesimal degrees. Horns here or electric guitar run there don't signify anything significant.

devotion was a bit more groove-focused overall

They all are but we're talking about degrees here. She's been consistent, eschewing "evolution," thank god. I can imagine getting bored of her, but that's me.

FYI, http://store.jessieware.com has signed copies of the regular, vinyl, and deluxe (+$2? No brainer there...) editions, plus litho and t-shirt packages (mostly L and under).

Heh, I didn't even realize this came out today (I thought it was still a few weeks away). Listening now and it's fantastic.

ware is one of the most solid artists around for quality deluxe versions

not mad about this overall. I like "Finish What We Started" but nothing much else has stuck. "Your Domino" just seems like a less graceful version of "110%" to me

I've been listsening all weekend -- am listening now -- and every time I'm ready to file it away as "This is nice, agreeable" I remember that I was walking around for a lot of 2015 going YOU WERE THE SWEETEST SWEETEST SONG and making Miguel's seal noises from "You and I, Forever."

She's starting a podcast? Sure.

this is dull

On the second car play of the album, and like it well enough. Disappointed that "ft. Paul Buchanan" is more of a drive-by than a duet, and surprised that he wasn't utilized more. Maybe there's a proper duet floating around out there?

this album rules

I saw her live a few days ago for the third time and she's still killing it. she basically brought the house lights up every several songs to chat with the audience

She’s the best

https://www.instagram.com/p/BiHl0_1h9Og/
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at the show i went to, the woman in this video got brought up on stage during a song break after jessie saw her kind of grooving out dancing in the back doing her own thing. apparently she didn't even know jessie's music before the show and just came with her mom or aunt and friends and was just really feeling it.

I'm very into her new song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K5d1jtZ9hc

uh, shit, this kicks ass

just when i was thinking "i hope her next project is dancier"

much better

Speaking of the track, the singer said, “’Overtime’ is a taste of what’s to come. It’s been really fun being back in the studio and I’m so excited to share this track. I worked on it with some of my favourite producers; James Ford & the guys of Bicep. It feels like I’m going back to my early days; it’s a late night song to flirt to. Whilst I carry on working on new music, I hope you really enjoy this one.”

Jessie Ware and Bicep is a great combo.

Headline: Jessie Ware Flexes Her Muscles

Love this new track.

oh shit this is bicep????? god they were made for each other

Uhh, I think I like this more than "Honey".

Oh this is just fantastic. This is exactly the direction she should be going in right now.

i just picked up a vinyl copy of Glasshouse for $9, good timing.

wow can we get a whole Jessie Ware & Bicep album

this is really good - the slightness of the production gives her so much space to command, there's a genericness that in lesser hands would be anonymous rather than formularic impressiveness, the point where a template becomes a model

fucking love jessie ware

she is also super hilarious

it's fine but i'm not seeing it as the revelation y'all are

i don't recall enjoying anything from her last project tho so maybe i've just fallen out of love

it's just a delight to finally get an Imagine It Was Us sequel

this is good

Glasshouse was great

I've loved all three of her albums, but ever since "Imagine It Was Us" I've been ready for her to release her version of Overpowered. Maybe this time I'll get it.

Glasshouseis her worst. I only kept "Your Domino."

you were perhaps just expecting something else from her

it's my fave

just as lex informed me after i wrote my review of it, obviously it's bad and sucks and i was wrong

j/k

Glasshouse is her weakest but it's still good, just not a perfect album like Devotion

She's announced she's pregnant again (!) on instagram so whatever the next project is it might still be a while away.