What's Your Pleasure? (The Platinum Pleasure Edition Vinyl)＜限定盤＞

UK出身のシンガーソングライター:Jessie Wareの2020年にリリースされた4枚目のアルバムのスペシャル・エディション。新曲6曲を含む8曲追加収録!

Rhapsodic dancefloor intimacy became a new specialization for Jessie Ware with Overtime, the first in a wave of tracks the singer released from 2018 up to the June 2020 arrival of Whats Your Pleasure?, her fourth album. Other than Adore You, a chiming glider made with Metronomys Joseph Mount, each one in the series was either produced or co-produced by James Ford, consolidating and rerouting a partnership that started during the making of Tough Love. Unlike Ford and Wares collaborations on that 2014 LP, the new material didnt merely simmer. Hottest of all, Mirage (Dont Stop) worked a ripe disco-funk groove with Wares opening line, Last night we danced, and I thought you were saving my life -- sighed in a Bananarama cadence -- a sweet everything if there ever was one. The loved-up energy was kept in constant supply with the dashing Spotlight, the Freeez-meet-Teena Marie-at-Compass-Point bump of Ooh La La, and the sneaky Euro-disco belter Save a Kiss. All but Overtime are included here. That makes the album somewhat anti-climactic, but theres no sense in complaining when the preceding singles keep giving and the new material is almost always up to the same standard. Among the fresh standouts, the bounding Morgan Geist co-production Soul Control and the dashing Step Into My Life recontextualize underground club music with as much might and finesse as anything by Roisin Murphy. Stylistic deviations are few, well-placed, and maintain lyrical continuity with references to the senses as they relate to emotional and physical connection. In Your Eyes recalls Massive Attacks Safe from Harm with its hypnotizing bassline, subtly theatrical strings, and aching (if less desperate) vocal. Moving in gradually intensifying and similarly slow motion, The Kill enables Ware to let down her guard for an unassured lover. Remember Where You Are, a stirring finale, takes a little trip to cherish the daybreak in Minnie Riperton and Charles Stepneys chamber folk-soul garden, replete with a goosebump-raising group vocal in the chorus. One can almost smell the babys breath. ~ Andy Kellman

アトモスフェリックでマイルドな印象の強かったジェシー・ウェアが4枚目のフル・アルバムをリリース。神秘的な美を見せていた過去作と違って80年代っぽい美粧で決めたジャケからもわかるように、今回はニューウェイヴ～ポスト・ディスコ時代のダンス・ポップにアルバム・トータルで取り組んでいる。メイン・プロデューサーを務めるのは2作目『Tough Love』(2014年)でも組んでいたジェイムズ・フォード(シミアン・モバイル・ディスコ)で、それ以外の制作陣は近作からガラリと一新。モルガン・ガイストやカインドネスも迎え、ベンジBも絡んだ"Mirage(Don't Stop)"ではバナナラマ"Cruel Summer"を引用しているのもおもしろい。すでに本国UKのチャートでは過去最高の3位を記録済み!
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