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

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

it's kind of the platonic ideal of a podcast

New song “Mirage” out now or soon depending where you are

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHz0KYb7wV8

this is going to be her best album isn't it

another breathtaking track

v Róisín

Unavailable in my country.

I hope she waits until 2020 to release the album so it gets the attention she deserves.

Stunning! The best album of 2020 already confirmed.

Okay she’s 3 for 3

Feel free to announce an album anytime soon, Jessie

The first section of the verses reminds me of "Let The Music Play" by Shannon, which could not be a finer thing to reference.

Or maybe it's "Cruel Summer" by Bananrama. Whatever that descending melody is closer to.

I can finally listen to this.

Oh wow!

Who is producing this one? Overtime was Bicep and Simian Mobile Disco, Adore You was the guy from Metronomy.

Is he using another producer in this one? It sounds amazing.

Oh I found some info/

James Ford (Simian Mobile Disco), Benji B and Matthew Travers contributed production.

I don’t know who Matthew Travers is but this sounds great.

Also why didn’t anyone tell me about this Adore You remix jeez

https://youtu.be/KbmAElwftWs

Seems to be a typo. It's Matthew Tavares, former keyboardist of BADBADNOTGOOD.

another thread.

keep on posting

lol I mean another thread that WORKS at the moment

ok we need to piece the clues together, what connects these threads?

😎

jessie ware 2020

ok we need to piece the clues together, what connects these threads?

I suspected it was insanely too long threads that were working, but DMB why so bad + hated isn't working.

A bit generic but at least it's not hers so w/e

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS6MM4vkLpo

new single “Spotlight” out on 28 February

hoping the album announcement will finally materialise too

hoping the album announcement will finally materialise too

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/feb/15/jessie-ware-music-new-album-food-podcast-with-mother-recipe-book

To make the new album, she booked time with a producer whose studio was walkable from her home. This meant that when Ware and her husband had a second child (a boy in spring 2019) the music carried on around the edges of their life, not the other way round. She says the new album will be about “joyful escapism…sexy, seductive, late-night music that you can get lost in”... her idea for the new album was that it would be confession-free, but without chasing any of the old mystique.

“Oh, I’ve fucked the mystique by now,” says Ware. “The podcast has seen to my mystique. People know what I’ve eaten. What I’ve argued with my mum about this week. The mystique is not there. I’m absolutely never going to be FKA Twigs. And that’s OK.” She looks aside, as if struck by a thought, and says: “Ooh, Twigs. We should try and get her on as a guest, shouldn’t we?”

xp it has! What’s Your Pleasure? out June 5

So excited for you to hear this one; a two-year labour of love with the dream team @jamesellisford, @shungudzo, Danny Parker, @Kindness, Coffee Jr, @metronomy, @TheRealBenjiB, @midlandsound, Matty and @MorganGeistNYC. I love it so much and these guys are so incredible.

— Jessie Ware (@JessieWare) February 27, 2020

looks like she worked with most of her collaborators from the three singles so far some more (no Bicep though unfortunately) but the most exciting new name there is Morgan Geist

That cover has a v promising aesthetic for the album

This is just the news I needed today! Really hope she includes the previous singles.

Leaked track-list from PopJustice. No Overtime is a bit of a shame, but at least the others are on there.

1. Spotlight
2. What's Your Pleasure?
3. Ooh La La
4. Soul Control
5. Save A Kiss
6. Adore You
7. In Your Eyes
8. Step Into My Life
9. Read My Lips
10. Mirage (Don't Stop)
11. The Kill
12. Remember Where You Are

midland! that's gonna be sick

album of the year is coming, everyone!

I’m absolutely never going to be FKA Twigs. And that’s OK.

This is more than OK.

new single is heavenly and camp - disco strings and i think an "i want your love" sample?

love this new single but don't know how she could leave "overtime" off the album

I’m absolutely never going to be FKA Twigs. And that’s OK.

This is more than OK.

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

otm

I LOVE THIS WOMAN

https://youtu.be/SL42lKcA3lk

(I could see how based on this and “Adore You” and “Mirage” how “Overtime” wouldn’t fit)

This new single is just fantastic. She's getting it all so right and it's glorious to witness.

This is going to be her best album isn't it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw56LGfrf4A

love the video too

Getting Ewan Pearson-era Tracey Thorn vibes but this is wonderful on its own terms, she keeps delivering

holy crow this is awesome