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

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.

For me the only lowlights of Glasshouse are the Julia Michaels and Ed Sheeran co-writes, and "Slow Me Down" which is fine but lopes a little too languidly. Everything else is fabulous.

"imagine it was us" is still so great

and "Midnight Caller"!

this is so good

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

The production on this is better than maybe 99% of dance-pop, you can tell every sonic decision has been based around sounding amazing on a club system. Bicep production in general seems to lack any particularly unique sonic identity but at the same time it's just really satisfying and well-made, like a pebble you just want to keep rolling round in your hand.

Song itself is great as well, if we get a whole album of stuff in this vein them I'm onboard (and I guess it's mostly in the can already).

glasshouse was good if a bit pedestrian, it felt like the record that threatened to "cross over" and "selfish love" felt like a much needed mash of tom waits/sade

my favourites are the bsides from tough love, which is imo her best record by miles.

new song is more wow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHKMEHT_Jus

FUCK I CANNOT WAIT FOR THIS ALBUM

YES

wow this is fucking nice

holy shit

well... if this album actually happens, aoty

literally tearing up at how gorgeous this song is

I'm quote bored with this streak of marvelous tracks. Wht happened to the uneven Ware of old?

uh wow

ZAMN ZESSIE

From her email - it seems like the disco record we've all always lusted after is very much in the pipeline but with the birth of her child imminent I don't imagine it'll be out until maybe the second half of the year at the earliest

Adore You, a brand new song for Valentine's

As is becoming a Valentine's tradition, I'm very proud and excited to offer up a Valentine's present to you all. This is Adore You. I wrote it with Joe Mount of the fantastic Metronomy on our first session together. After being such a fan of Metronomy over the years, and his work with the divine Robyn, I feel so lucky to have written this little love nugget to give to you. We wrote it in one rather rushed sitting in East London (childcare on both our parts!) and it felt better and better upon every listen even in its most raw mumbling demo form.

It feels particularly poignant to be putting this out as I'm about to embark on being a mother for the second time. I'm still making music, still loving my various jobs and so keen to share more music with you as soon as I can. However, this time around things will be different; I won't be rushing back into work, I'm going to enjoy the first mad months of newborn life and I'm not going to feel guilty about it. I have so much music ready for you but I have to be ready myself. James Ford and I have been in the studio finishing up a load of tracks and my poor family has to endure a multitude of mixes, me jumping for joy at Jules Buckley's string arrangements, replays and plenty more disco.

I have so many ideas - too many in fact - that I'm trying very enthusiastically to juggle. I shall still be in your ears, currently with our Table Manners NYC mini series that started last week and with other musical offerings. And you can hear my special birth playlist for Radio 1's Wind Down slot here. I may even use it for my own birth, sod it!! So whilst I rediscover long nights, newborn bottoms and the beauty of white noise, please enjoy this song that I too adore.

Lots of love and see you on the other side of sleepless nights, a little worse for wear but maybe a tad wiser.

Jessie X

Oh wow, this is incredible. This album is going to rule so hard.

I'm already starting to think about how incredible her best of is going to be. She's made so many of my favourite singles of the decade.

I wasn't wild about "Overtime" but this one is gorgeous

on board!

I don't know if we've talked about her podcast with her mom but it's pretty delightful at times and she's had some pretty good guests this season - Carly Rae Jepsen a few weeks ago and now Roisin Murphy