What’s Your Pleasure? ... is probably the most satisfying record of 2020 so far and certainly Ware’s finest.
What’s Your Pleasure? deepens the singer-songwriter’s commitment to her craft with the album marking a striking and sultry chapter in her canon. One can be sure that there are even more good things to come from Ware in the future.
She’s never sounded this bold and carefree before, and it’s a revelation. All these factors make What’s Your Pleasure an exceptional and life-affirming album that could keep company with 21st century disco pop classics such as Discovery, Fever, Overpowered, Honey, Hercules & Love Affair and Anniemal.
The result is surely one of the best pop albums of 2020, and is possibly Ware’s finest to date. A sensual delight, What’s Your Pleasure? is the ultimate in post-disco gratification.
The power of disco is on full display on What's Your Pleasure.
It is ... , undeniably, the British pop star’s best album yet: a sumptuous tribute to both peak- and post-disco as well as the black, brown and LGBTQ people the genre resonated with most deeply.
British diva Jessie Ware cooks up a glittery collection of hedonistic disco tracks and delivers one of the year's best records with What's Your Pleasure.
Made in the wake of 2017’s Glasshouse, an album where she felt encumbered by commercial expectations, Ware answers with twelve fiery cuts which are brighter, salacious and disco to the core.
What’s Your Pleasure has a sleek and sensual disco glamour replete with fantastic pop hooks, taking a spin around the dance floor worthy of Studio 54 in its glitterball glory days.
Her best album to date, refining her earlier sound and gifting us with sexy and sultry disco that is begging to be heard on the dancefloor, and the bedroom.
What’s Your Pleasure? is one of the few albums made since trad-disco’s revival to intimately know not only every nook and cranny of the genre’s blueprints but how to trace each aspect to present-day manifestations.
What’s Your Pleasure? reveals the magic that happens when an artist feels truly free.
An intoxicating cocktail of seductive beats, exhilarating choruses and sleek production, ‘What’s Your Pleasure?’ is pure escapism.
What’s Your Pleasure? is an album that, just a few months ago, might have felt like a nostalgia trip or a guilty pleasure, but now feels like manna for the soul.
The conversation surrounding Jessie Ware's luxurious What's Your Pleasure? has been a tug of war between reinvention and return to form — is it a bold new frontier or a homecoming to the dance music of her debut? The answer, it turns out, is both and neither.
Ware’s fourth record is an unadulterated good time, concerned only with the dancefloor.
What's Your Pleasure? is a very grown-up night at the club, Ware in stylish control its highs and lows.
I’ll give it more tries, but I don’t think this is all that interesting of a take on Disco. It’s not very engaging for my pea sized ADHD brain.
68 -> 82: YOOOO Okay I was wrong. This thing is just as rich and beautiful as the new one, but even more subtle about it. Great album.
Incredibly hypnotic, incredibly groovy, What's Your Pleasure is a radiant work that cannot leave you indifferent. It sticks perfectly in the air of the time, combining beautiful writing with a dancing mood.
Jessie Ware was for me recently, a brilliant artist that I learned to discover, for which I surprised myself to have missed it. She has a career in constant evolution (despite the small slack in her previous album), which not only shows that she has been able to reinvent herself, but also ... read more
In her fourth studio album, Jessie Ware take us to a dance planet, where you can think of everything and still don't miss a beat. I literally couldn't stop moving while listening... it's soooooo good, omfg!!! Kind of a mashup of all the best things in dancehall music. A very necessary project for the current climate. Also her voice is delicious, the production is absolut fire (one of the most polished of the year), the details after the beats....
In resume, if you want your year to be a little ... read more
Grandiose! That's some good Dance-Pop! The production behind this album is outstanding, the vocals are fantastic, the lyrics can sometimes be a bit meh. But this is a perfectly crafted album. The track-listing is superb and the songs all give off a similar vibe while changing things up effectively.
- Spotlight: 9.5
- What’s Your Pleasure?: 8.0
- Ooh La La: 7.0
- Soul Control: 8.0
- Save A Kiss: 9.0
- Adore You: 7.0
- In Your Eyes: 6.0
- Step Into My Life: 7.0
- Read My Lips: 7.0
- Mirage (Don’t Stop): 7.5
- The Kill: 7.0
- Remember Where You Are: 6.0
Média: 74
Pontos adicionais: —
Pontos retirados: -4
Nota final: 70
1 | Spotlight 5:31 | 96 |
2 | What's Your Pleasure? 4:38 | 94 |
3 | Ooh La La 3:48 | 89 |
4 | Soul Control 3:59 | 92 |
5 | Save A Kiss 4:02 | 90 |
6 | Adore You 3:45 | 84 |
7 | In Your Eyes 4:58 | 88 |
8 | Step Into My Life 3:37 | 89 |
9 | Read My Lips 4:03 | 88 |
10 | Mirage (Don’t Stop) 4:47 | 85 |
11 | The Kill 4:37 | 89 |
12 | Remember Where You Are 5:34 | 93 |
#1 | / | The Needle Drop |
#3 | / | GQ [UK] |
#3 | / | PopMatters |
#3 | / | Slant Magazine |
#3 | / | Slate |
#3 | / | USA Today |
#4 | / | Albumism |
#5 | / | The Music |
#5 | / | Under the Radar |
#6 | / | Us Weekly |