JESSIE WARE

A chart-topping album, a Mercury Music Prize nomination, sold-out gigs, a hit podcast and a new TV role prove that this multi-disciplinary artist is ready to spread her wings

-  Cliff Joannou

AFTER SUPERLATIVE ΤΗ Ε club-ready sounds of What's Your Pleasure? won her a legion of new fans when the record was released during the first Covid lockdown in 2020, Jessie Ware returned three years later with its decadent progeny, the soul-infused That! Feels Good!.

The top-three charting record gave Ware the best reviews of her career while scoring a solid Metacritic rating of 89 out of 100, deservedly earning the artist her second Mercury Music Prize nomination.

Looking to the likes of Earth, Wind & Fire, Grace Jones, Prince, Donna Summer, Diana Ross, Chaka Khan, Rotary Connection and Tina Marie to infuse this new direction, Ware's fifth album is a seamless body of work that glides effortlessly from blissful, 70s-inspired grooves to sassy, contemporised disco beats. Each track is gloriously distinct from the next, yet the body of work maintains an elegant cohesiveness that concept albums often fall short of.