The highly anticipated seventh and first fully independent studio album of the English musician offers plenty of minimalistic electronic R&B production. Its beauty sometimes hides the true meaning of art itself.
The songs unfold through implicit, introspective lyrics, rich with ambiguity. Lines like “I think we might be sleeping / walking to the death of love” hover between the personal and the societal, suggesting a fading empathy mirrored in a dissolving relationship. The ... read more
Sorry for the diary entry, but I just found this album about an hour ago while fixing my grammar and typing for my review of Jessie Ware’s Superbloom on this website, after previously writing about Lana Del Rey’s Born to Die. I've been too lazy to even write a few paragraphs because work drains me and well, I’m just that lazy. But today I felt unusually unproductive and had just enough energy left to rearrange words instead of just tipping in a score and moving on.
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Born to Die is a deeply uneven album, split between striking highs (“Video Games,” “Summertime Sadness”), serviceable mid-tier tracks (“National Anthem,” “Radio”), and misfires like “Off to the Races,” where the theatrical vocal shifts feel more distracting than expressive. Her vocal delivery swings between breathy detachment and exaggerated stylization, sometimes within the same song, creating a sense of instability that can either ... read more
Superbloom strengthen Jessie Ware's disco revivalism, yet leaves only a faint lasting impression.
If What’s Your Pleasure? captures lush, sultry evening moments and That! Feels Good! radiates sunlit, energetic high-power summer euphoria, then Superbloom, as its title suggests, aims for a softer, ice melting bloom. However, that sense of gradual unfolding often comes at the cost of impact, making the album feel unexpectedly flat.
"Ride" leaning with its maximalist disco ... read more