Jessie Ware – That! Feels Good! (2023) [FLAC 24bit/48kHz]

Jessie Ware – That! Feels Good! (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 40:26 minutes | 523 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © EMI

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:

1-01. Jessie Ware – That! Feels Good! (04:22)
1-02. Jessie Ware – Free Yourself (03:54)
1-03. Jessie Ware – Pearls (04:03)
1-04. Jessie Ware – Hello Love (04:42)
1-05. Jessie Ware – Begin Again (05:24)
1-06. Jessie Ware – Beautiful People (03:35)
1-07. Jessie Ware – Freak Me Now (03:28)
1-08. Jessie Ware – Shake The Bottle (03:23)
1-09. Jessie Ware – Lightning (03:10)
1-10. Jessie Ware – These Lips (04:21)

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