Thursday, April 25, 2013

Jessie Ware - Devotion

'Classic' is a word that I use charily, but in the case of "Wildest Moments" I think it's not completely inapt - a resonant, pulsing, elegant piece of electro-soul with a pop edge which doesn't pall in the slightest on repeat listens and which cut through despite being in a genre that doesn't normally pull me. Indeed, it was months of listening to it, on and off, that led me to Devotion, which probably inevitably doesn't match the standard set by that first, gorgeous single (although "Sweet Talk" certainly has a something going), although there's a smoothness and a pulse to it that makes for ready listening.