Jessie Ware - That! Feels Good! (2023) [Official Digital Download]

Jessie Ware’s 2020 release What’s Your Pleasure was one of the early pandemic’s great revelations — a pop album that successfully brought the movement, yearning, and euphoria of the dance club into everyone’s homes. It was a perfect setting for the British singer and songwriter’s voice, luxurious and sophisticated but still highly accessible.

Ware’s follow-up to that achievement, titled That! Feels Good! in Shania Twain house punctuation style, zeroes in on the many pleasures of dance music. Bodies and bodily sensations are emphasized, while inhibitions are shaken off in pursuit of ecstasy, even when that means simply disappearing (along with one’s ego) into a mass of dancing bodies. It’s also brighter and funkier than its predecessor, full of big brass and grooves that amplify the feeling of joy.

The title track, penned by Ware with collaborators including Shungudzo, Daniel Ford, and Simian Mobile Disco’s James Ford, is a perfect example. It opens with an orgy of breathy voices uttering the title phrase before transforming into a limber disco-funk jam that lands somewhere between Prince and Stevie Wonder, full of scratchy guitar, blaring horn hits, and a supple, syncopated bassline. “Just remember: pleasure is a right,” Ware sings. It’s both affirmation and rallying cry: don’t be ashamed to ask for what you want.

That’s a recurring theme throughout the album. In the single “Free Yourself,” Ware flips into disco diva mode with an anthem of sexual liberation for queer and straight people alike. “Free yourself, keep on moving up that mountaintop/Why don’t you please yourself?” she sings. She seemingly runs the entire length of her considerable range, belting the choruses and nodding to Donna Summer’s eternal “I Feel Love” as the song shifts from piano-driven disco to piano-driven house and then back again for its satisfying final vamp.

TRACKLIST

01_That! Feels Good!
02_Free Yourself
03_Pearls
04_Hello Love
05_Begin Again
06_Beautiful People
07_Freak Me Now
08_Shake The Bottle
09_Lightning
10_These Lips

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log date: 2023-04-27 14:24:04

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Analyzed: Jessie Ware / That! Feels Good!
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR7 -0.21 dB -8.51 dB 4:22 01-That! Feels Good!
DR6 -0.20 dB -7.09 dB 3:54 02-Free Yourself
DR7 -0.22 dB -8.50 dB 4:03 03-Pearls
DR6 -0.21 dB -7.79 dB 4:43 04-Hello Love
DR7 -0.22 dB -8.26 dB 5:24 05-Begin Again
DR7 -0.21 dB -8.13 dB 3:36 06-Beautiful People
DR7 -0.22 dB -8.25 dB 3:28 07-Freak Me Now
DR8 -0.31 dB -9.17 dB 3:24 08-Shake The Bottle
DR6 -0.45 dB -8.58 dB 3:10 09-Lightning
DR7 -0.22 dB -8.94 dB 4:22 10-These Lips
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Number of tracks: 10
Official DR value: DR7

Samplerate: 48000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 1802 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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