After putting music on the back burner and focusing on her acclaimed podcast Table Manners, Jessie Ware is back with her “first love”.
The singer has created an old-school and flirtatious album that provides some much-needed escapism, and her voice is stronger than ever.
There’s no melancholy or yearning here, instead we get sexual tension, hazy summer nights out and the electricity of connection. Musically, Ware’s returned to her club-culture roots, with a throwback to classic funk, dance and disco, although sizzling synths and intuitive production pull the songs into this decade.
Save A Kiss is a dancefloor-ready banger, but far from her previous, more commercial, sound — she’s a master of anticipation, semi-whispered lyrics building tension: “Now my heart is racing / Passing all the places we’ve been / Counting down the minutes / Till I give you all of me”.
That’s what she does — a refreshingly positive sound from a newly groovy artist.