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

Miss Diamond To You is near the top of my all-time favourites, but her voice isn't the point

i like the album take better for Spotlight; more room to lounge and soak

Tbh this feels less like the Kathy Diamond record specifically and more just, like, a Maurice Fulton production in general

steve do you love the new boof album?

lol this is pretty great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLhfECsvzvQ

weird to see dominic cummings in a jessie ware video

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.

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

for those who were as swept up by what's your pleasure as i was, may i recommend
Azana - Ingoma

my feelings exactly :-)

i would fuck with the afrobeats tunes so much more if there were high-res downloads available

Jessie Ware has afrobeats tunes?

Anyway, everyone should check out the Azana album (which is not afrobeats but gorgeous South African soul and house)

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

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

There was already this video (Ware-approved and/or -commissioned, it's on her YT):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS_o7XpnEqA

yeah, i have much preferred the individual dancer videos, they seem to capture the vibe of the moment much better

guys one thing has come to my attention after repeated listens to the album, and that is ...

the lyrics are (mostly) bad :(

They serve the beats.

i need the whole package

it's quarantine, honey. Use your imagination like the rest of us.

jessie ware has never been a lyrics-forward artist anyway

there's an art to unobtrusive lyrics that don't actively detract from the experience!

A craft at which even Bernard Sumner failed sometimes.

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

any good remixes so far? the album has if anything just grown on me more over the course of the summer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHwsQHvmQ-c

i think that's literally the only one though? (i wish i liked it more.) hoping for more.

jessie needs rave synth drama not a moodymann-lite treatment imo

Georgia's remix of "What's Your Pleasure" is closer to rave synth drama.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgZilR39_BY

ty

i think that's literally the only one though? (i wish i liked it more.) hoping for more.

Only good one or only one? (as there's quite a lot of remixes on Spotify)

ok a bunch more since the last time i checked

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=PLgV3lUftsRbYnDhoIIwZoqvIfFN4gOYkF
And 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.

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.

"More sensuous" sometimes than others on *her* album, I mean, not comparing her to Azana.

She has her own thread if you're curious: Azana - Ingoma

that's right - I c+p'd your post to that thread, dow.

in case you (or anyone else) missed it, the new album by kindred spirit Simmy is out today, more here: THE HOUSE OF SUN-EL: Sun-El Musician, Simmy, Mlindo The Vocalist, and other related artists

Thanks so much! I like her track w Sun-El Musician, and dazzled by prospects of all the vids etc. on his thread, incl. Simmy.

Do you like the Ware?

O hell yes, did I not say enough about her? Very much! You guys have covered it pretty well. How does it compare to her previous?

Bass-ier, faster, sensual-er.

ooo-wee!

it's her best album imo

Stunning archive Ware performance on tonight's Jools Holland (selected by, er, Mel C).

Ahh I love this, this is like the polar opposite vibe of the original (and I fucking love the original)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpaihnd2a4Y

that took a turn!

Jessie's gonna be a judge on Drag Race UK's upcoming season and if the two queens up for elimination on her ep don't LSFYL to WYP's title track, I will plotz

but knowing it's Drag Race and they never give us what we want, they probably won't even lip sync to a Jessie Ware song on her ep

yesssssss

Just so you all know. There's gonna be a deluxe. I have listened to your calls (demands 😉) and I'm trying to get this shit together as quick as possible for you. I got you XXX

— Jessie Ware (@JessieWare) January 8, 2021

THANK U QUEEN