man, "in your eyes" ...
― carin' (map), Thursday, 9 July 2020 01:26 (three years ago) link
there's no weak spots on here
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 9 July 2020 02:31 (three years ago) link
I keep finding new favorite songs in here. “Step Into My Life” was one of the songs I didn’t care much about the first couple of spins but right now it’s my favorite one.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 10 July 2020 03:34 (three years ago) link
I'm feeling this with the title track! "Read My Lips" remains my personal fave of the moment
― winters (josh), Friday, 10 July 2020 04:54 (three years ago) link
love how the last minute of “step into my life” calls “is it love you’re after?” by rose royce to mind
― donna rouge, Friday, 10 July 2020 05:47 (three years ago) link
this reminds me of that kathy diamond record
― johnny crunch, Friday, 10 July 2020 16:50 (three years ago) link
Better.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 July 2020 16:53 (three years ago) link
i'm checking out some kathy diamond tracks based on the mention... is it just me or is she .. a pretty bad singer? lol
jessie ware is a GREAT singer.
it's sort of crazy how this album has finally bowled me over in the last week or so. i don't know how to account for it. i'm just totally awe-struck.
i still think the 'classic disco' angle doesn't really capture makes this thing so special. i guess it has some classic elements in the appearance of certain instruments and in how the vocals are produced (they aren't these bright monochromatic slabs, they sound like human mouths singing human words) but there are also bracing, modern elements, like the last bit (coda?) of 'ooh la la' with the high synth colors that sound like the feeling of driving really fast and taking a hit of nicotine. the strings are also more inventive than a lot of classic disco imo, even patrick adams.. they're very imagistic and have a swirl to them that reminds me of scott walker arrangements.
― carin' (map), Friday, 10 July 2020 20:11 (three years ago) link
ya it bangs - have you subbed in the single edit of spotlight for the album version?
― ||||||||, Friday, 10 July 2020 20:17 (three years ago) link
I mean has everyone already
kathy diamond rocks but feels p different to me
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Friday, 10 July 2020 20:30 (three years ago) link
i’ve listened to the single edit and album version of spotlight back to back to figure out what people find radically different about them and am at a loss
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 10 July 2020 20:31 (three years ago) link
map otm that the strings are where it’s at
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 10 July 2020 20:32 (three years ago) link
Miss Diamond To You is near the top of my all-time favourites, but her voice isn't the point
― boxedjoy, Friday, 10 July 2020 20:39 (three years ago) link
i like the album take better for Spotlight; more room to lounge and soak
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 10 July 2020 22:40 (three years ago) link
Tbh this feels less like the Kathy Diamond record specifically and more just, like, a Maurice Fulton production in general
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 11 July 2020 02:39 (three years ago) link
steve do you love the new boof album?
― carin' (map), Saturday, 11 July 2020 02:56 (three years ago) link
lol this is pretty greathttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLhfECsvzvQ
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 13 July 2020 05:09 (three years ago) link
weird to see dominic cummings in a jessie ware video
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 13 July 2020 05:17 (three years ago) link
I think there's a lightness of touch which I find personally more exciting w/ the Dua album, which has these kind of strictures that force it to sound a bit more of-its-time, certain melodic choices it makes, the way it cuts quickly and makes some unconventional harmonic/melodic moves for disco while not really going full-blown generic pop, that make it feel less like periodicization and instead like a kind of weird hybrid.
I think this is generally true about the differences between the two records, and while I like the Dua album a lot it has about as much lightness of touch as a force-ten gale and that's part of the appeal.
― Matt DC, Monday, 13 July 2020 10:37 (three years ago) link
yah tho i specificially meant that about the sort of unpredictable almost whimsical way it plays w different era pastiche's i agree calling the album 'light of touch' outside that extremely narrow strata seems kind of off tm
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 04:21 (three years ago) link
for those who were as swept up by what's your pleasure as i was, may i recommendAzana - Ingoma
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 20 July 2020 16:27 (three years ago) link
my feelings exactly :-)
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 20 July 2020 17:52 (three years ago) link
i would fuck with the afrobeats tunes so much more if there were high-res downloads available
― carin' (map), Monday, 20 July 2020 18:03 (three years ago) link
Jessie Ware has afrobeats tunes? Anyway, everyone should check out the Azana album (which is not afrobeats but gorgeous South African soul and house)
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 20 July 2020 18:58 (three years ago) link
seems cruel to edit even a second from this song but i guess i can overlook it if we get latex gloves & huge hair moments instead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWazsCKdlhg
― monotony, Friday, 24 July 2020 07:59 (three years ago) link
So good. I think clips like this kind of validate but also respond to deej’s point about these songs being mannered - like, yes they are and she fucking loves it
― Tim F, Friday, 24 July 2020 08:55 (three years ago) link
There was already this video (Ware-approved and/or -commissioned, it's on her YT):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS_o7XpnEqA
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 24 July 2020 15:23 (three years ago) link
yeah, i have much preferred the individual dancer videos, they seem to capture the vibe of the moment much better
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 24 July 2020 18:33 (three years ago) link
guys one thing has come to my attention after repeated listens to the album, and that is ...
the lyrics are (mostly) bad :(
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Monday, 27 July 2020 20:04 (three years ago) link
They serve the beats.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 July 2020 20:05 (three years ago) link
i need the whole package
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Monday, 27 July 2020 20:06 (three years ago) link
it's quarantine, honey. Use your imagination like the rest of us.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 July 2020 20:15 (three years ago) link
jessie ware has never been a lyrics-forward artist anyway
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Monday, 27 July 2020 20:57 (three years ago) link
there's an art to unobtrusive lyrics that don't actively detract from the experience!
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Monday, 27 July 2020 20:58 (three years ago) link
A craft at which even Bernard Sumner failed sometimes.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 July 2020 21:00 (three years ago) link
and I like the lyrics of the last two tracks just fine
i take it back about the lyrics, they're good actually, i just heard a few clunkers on "read my lips" the other day and extrapolated
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 01:43 (three years ago) link
any good remixes so far? the album has if anything just grown on me more over the course of the summer
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Friday, 11 September 2020 17:03 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHwsQHvmQ-c
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 11 September 2020 17:06 (three years ago) link
i think that's literally the only one though? (i wish i liked it more.) hoping for more.
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Friday, 11 September 2020 17:09 (three years ago) link
jessie needs rave synth drama not a moodymann-lite treatment imo
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Friday, 11 September 2020 17:19 (three years ago) link
Georgia's remix of "What's Your Pleasure" is closer to rave synth drama.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgZilR39_BY
― voyou, Friday, 11 September 2020 18:09 (three years ago) link
ty
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Saturday, 12 September 2020 02:46 (three years ago) link
Only good one or only one? (as there's quite a lot of remixes on Spotify)
― groovypanda, Saturday, 12 September 2020 15:12 (three years ago) link
ok a bunch more since the last time i checked
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Saturday, 12 September 2020 15:40 (three years ago) link
hey yall who invoked Azana, thanx so much! Just now listed, then commented & linked to Frank Kogan, who had sent South African picks:Here's a good -sounding playlist, all from her currrent album, Ingoma, I think--might seem a bit ballad-y at first, but mostly of a smooth pulsation, luxury class but never wasteful---or wasted, alas; I wouldn't something a little less reasonable, but she's as good, as that gets. Relatively mainstream "Your Love" is even a fave---first single, and I totally get that, ditto the plainer version of "Goodbye," but most faves make more overt use of "ethnic" elements, like the other version of "Goodbye," feat. Just Bheki and Afriikan Papi, and another fave, "Uthando Lwangemela" (that might be my No.1), also "Sikelela", with 0 guests listed. Ditto the mystique of "Egoli," with clipped accents drawing catchy verses around the sidewalk, then chorus stretching some syllables toward dreamtime--here's the playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgV3lUftsRbYnDhoIIwZoqvIfFN4gOYkFAnd one of several not on the list, v. catchy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNCml8NfC8I There's also a live at the Redbox set, where she performs the whole album, apparently, haven;t listened to that yet (several African artists with vids from the Redbox, I see) (Oh also on the list: "Lovers and Best Friends," feat. Disciples of House.)
Somebody in YT comments said, like, "If she were Anita Baker or Sade, people would be raving." Yeah she's in there between them, vibe-wise, also found/from her own nexus.
― dow, Thursday, 5 November 2020 22:18 (three years ago) link
Also think of Sade re more sensuous phrasing (of Jessie) brushing by on the beat train, overall effect also recalling that Sade is a band. Agree that while JW has her Granny's disco collection down as ground, she's also learned from subsequent releases, sounds like she might like Robyn, for inst.
― dow, Thursday, 5 November 2020 22:26 (three years ago) link
"More sensuous" sometimes than others on *her* album, I mean, not comparing her to Azana.
― dow, Thursday, 5 November 2020 22:28 (three years ago) link
She has her own thread if you're curious: Azana - Ingoma
― rob, Thursday, 5 November 2020 22:47 (three years ago) link