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

come to think of it, the harmonies in the chorus (which are what MAKE the track imo) also sound a little bit like remain-in-light era talking heads, but like joyful rather than aggressive and cocaine-y.

the video seems like it's in conversation with roisin's 'plaything' video (which is superior imo but i mean it's hard to top)

“Hot N Heavy” is another stunner.

need

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

yeah wow, ridiculous that her outtakes are this good, why wasn't it just straight up a double album lol

yes, both these tracks are as good as most anything on the album

jeez, dance floor anthem if i've ever heard one

omg "Eyes Closed"

oh my god "pale blue light"

all these songs are so good, she really should have released it as a double album straight up lol

wish there was just one more track released from these sessions so i could sequence a perfectly symmetrical double album

I don’t know, I listened to this today and apart from the two pre-released songs and “Overtime” I was like “these are fun but I get why they were cut from the album.” I mean it’s all great but I think a much longer album would have been exhausting. I think she has broadly made the right call here.

well yeah, it would have been exhausting as any 90 minute album would be exhausting but still, they're all as good as the songs on the actual album

the material here is so good that i think she could have gotten away with it is the thing

The songs are all good enough to be a standalone mini-lp/ep instead of the bonus material on a deluxe reissue, but $$$

Loooving "Hot and Heavy", what a vibe. Could have easily seen this as a double album, the quality of these eight tracks is high

highlight of the bonus tracks might be "0208" for me, yet again I'm perplexed by ILX's indifference to Kindness

The Kindness debut album is perhaps one of my favorite albums of the 2010’s and much of it is how it sounds. I’m not sure if it’s because Erol Alkan was involved or what happened afterwards that I haven’t been as attracted to his music ever since. Maybe I just changed. I still play the debut often, though.

ILM likes him iirc?

Y'all have sold me on checking it out

i've never really listened to kindness's solo work but i probably should considering how consistently strong he is as a collaborator

just want to mention that Kindness uses they/them

thx breastcrawl

Happy birthday!

Got excited there for a minute

Well, you should be excited. What's your pleasure, groovypanda

My keepers.

still waiting for her song w/ Kylie

My keepers.

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Listened to "Wildest Moments" this AM -- still kills.

*PLEASE* watch this

https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ej34mb/play/ac3mn3/p0c8xzb5

Heh -- I came here to post the very thing.

She played a new song that may or may not be called "Free Yourself" which sounds like a MASSIVE banger

Not being able to access the BBC iPlayer in the US has really been frustrating this weekend.

Some tracks are getting uploaded here:

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

Also check here.. Not sure if this is limited to the UK

https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ej34mb/play/ac3mn3/p0c8xzb5

Oh I see that link was just posted. soz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6keIr9AhMY

very shitty recording of the broadcast audio of "free yourself" here, very promising despite the quality

album is apparently almost done and now scheduled for next year, would be a bit surprised if we don't get a single before the end of the year though

full set audio will be posted here eventually:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/p0ccj9qh

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😝

Save A Kiss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd-0O5R3mZ0

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf6OVKJDpUC/

here we go! "free yourself" out next week

I hope this is the Stuart Price of Jacques Lu Cont remixes and big disco moments, not the Stuart Price of Take That album productions

the shitty recording of "free yourself" from glastonbury was great so i don't think there's anything to worry about

it's on Spotify, great song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U-ls1W7Sio

fantastic

finally the track to play b2b with "break my soul"

Love this. There's something very Girls Aloud about the verses.

nice, gospel disco vibes

"save a kiss" is such a Robyn track (or could be the other way around)

I think I’ve played it approx 20 times today and I’ve finished each listen completely breathless - it’s too soon to call it her best track, but it definitely feels like her biggest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUhWaO94XcQ

Also the Glastonbury performance of it is now on Youtube which may be of interest to anyone else like me who’d been living off the scraps of the bootleg snippets for the past month

also the new album is coming Q1 2023 which I am guessing is because of vinyl production delays (on BBC Radio 1 yesterday she said the record was done)