Jessie Ware: reviews, disco turns, and velvet vocals on DeBaser

The Profile

English singer-songwriter from London. Debuted with Devotion (2012) after early collaborations with SBTRKT and Sampha. Achieved a widely praised nu-disco breakthrough with What’s Your Pleasure? (2020) and continued the groove with That! Feels Good! (2023). Co-hosts the Table Manners podcast.

Born in 1984 in London; collaborated early with SBTRKT and Sampha; albums include Devotion (2012), Tough Love (2014), Glasshouse (2017), What’s Your Pleasure? (2020), and That! Feels Good! (2023); co-hosts the Table Manners podcast.

Three DeBaser reviews chart Jessie Ware’s arc from the sleek soul/R&B debut Devotion to the nu-disco breakthrough What’s Your Pleasure? and its 70s-steeped sequel That! Feels Good!. Critics praise her velvet voice, stylish production, and confident dancefloor pivot. The consensus: the disco-era homage suits her, with sustained quality and standout singles.

Notable Quotes

❝ The judgment is therefore positive: What’s Your Pleasure? is Jessie Ware's best album, which can now be recognized not only as an excellent author or performer but also as a respectable pop star, a star in the musical firmament that was just waiting for its consecration.

❝ In a nutshell, Disco music has a new queen, and she doesn’t seem ready to leave anytime soon: ready to hit the dance floor?

❝ No quirky dance tracks, no sudden sonic cataclysms like a magnitude 9.9 on the Richter scale, just the gentle flow of warm and enveloping tracks, downtempo immersed in the enigmatic fragrance of the unfinished leap between nature and artifice.