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Devotion [Limited Edition]

Jessie Ware Audio CD
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (49 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Audio CD (20 Aug 2012)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Limited Edition
  • Label: Island
  • ASIN: B007NWCXG2
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (49 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 65,243 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

1. Devotion
2. Wildest Moments
3. Running
4. Still Love Me
5. No To Love
6. Night Light
7. Swan Song
8. Sweet Talk
9. 110%
10. Taking In Water
11. Something Inside

Product Description

Product Description

A regular collaborator of SBTRKT, English singer-songwriter Jessie Ware's debut album is a unique offering that combines her distinct vocals with electronic pop and dance. Devotion features the hit singles "Running" and "110%". This is a limited edition digipack version of the album, which arrives in a cardboard sleeve.

BBC Review

Whilst she passed by several tipsters at the turn of the year, missing the BBC’s Sound of 2012 and the Brit Awards’ Critics Choice category, Clapham-raised Jessie Ware has been steadily growing into south London’s own Sade-in-waiting ever since her 2010 emergence.

That breakthrough was as a guest on SBTRKT’s track Nervous, and Ware would collaborate with the masked producer again on his eponymous album of 2011, as well as with Joker on The Vision.

Her gorgeous duet with Sampha, Valentine, was a standout single of 2011, and Ware’s own solo material prior to this set’s release, including non-album cut Strangest Feeling, laid impressive foundations.

Which have been built upon brilliantly: Devotion is the sort of sophisticated, soulful pop record that comes along all too rarely, a collection that never hides the heart on its sleeve. Down-tempo it may be, but no listener will come away downcast. Overlook the relatively low chart positions for Running and 110%, as they’re hardly indicative of the quality on display.

Devotion begins with delicately plucked guitar lines and trebly percussion, the title track navigating a narrative thread of a love affair coming apart at its seams. The touch of The Invisible’s Dave Okumu can be felt repeatedly – as the main producer, he lends some of his group’s brand of exquisite vulnerability to tracks like the sweat-and-tears-swollen Taking In Water, the restrained funk purr of Sweet Talk, and the Olympic-montage-soundtracking single Wildest Moments.

Wildest Moments offers listeners the opportunity to witness the frills-free appeal of this singer via two senses, as its video focuses exclusively on Ware throughout. It’s an effective visual metaphor for the album as a whole: the singer with nowhere to go, nowhere to hide. She turns with the world and can’t step off, so release comes in the form of these songs.

Ware never stretches for an out-of-reach note; she never gives her songs over to hyperbole or bombast. Throughout, there is a well-measured, well-mannered elegance that engages with more efficiency than many an artist dressing their material up as The Next Big Thing. There's nothing "next" about Ware: she’s here, now, and superb.

--Alix Buscovic

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Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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So i cottoned onto jessie ware through SBTRKT as i'm sure most others have, and i thank goodness that i did!

i watched her perform their track nervous at the boiler room on 'that video sharing website', and that made my mind up!

i've got really varying tastes in music, and in fact when i bought this album i also bought frank oceans channel orange, drakes take care, kate bushes the whole story, alex clares the lateness of the hour and a rock album by american head charge (if you know this band then you know they are miles apart in taste from the other albums named!).

baring that in mind, and how good the other albums are, i can safely say for me, that ms wares work is stronger and more connective than any other i have listened to for quite some time!! i love frank ocean, and kate bush, (in fact i'd class myself mainly a QOTSA fan first and foremost) but blimey - POW!! haven't stopped listening to Devotion since buying it! the sequence of events went - listened to frank, then drake,then kate, then jessie.... sorry alex clare, your album might be great but i haven't changed cd in my cd player since putting jessie's cd in!!

personally i connect with this album.
i heard someone (maybe it was an interviewer recently) liken her work to that of Sade.. i'd have to agree, and the uk thanks you.. forget about that tv karaoke contest, in Jessie Ware we trust!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A fabulous album 22 Jan 2013
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A great album. I can see why she's compared to Sade - lots of complex rhythms and a really cool voice
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4.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant debut ! 3 Nov 2012
By John
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Echoing the comments of many reviewers here , this is the most impressive album by a new artist that I've heard in a long time . Combining electronica and blues with a pop sensibility Jessie Ware has produced an album of music that is atmospheric ,romantic, sensual and occasionally actually beautiful.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful voice and great lyrics
On and off I've been listening to Jesse Ware and you tubed her and just had to buy this cd. It's great has slow melodies songs and more upbeat ones so will appeal to anyone who... Read more
Published 20 days ago by Jess
4.0 out of 5 stars Present
Present for my mum, she was very happy with it but i have yet to listen to the album myself
Published 23 days ago by Slattery
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
Great Album. Very diverse. Love every song. Brilliant production.

Apparently I have to write 11 more words.. That is unfair
Published 23 days ago by LD
5.0 out of 5 stars Soaring vocals
Me and my daughters,( and thinking about it my son too! ) love this album. She has a beautiful clear voice with real power. Fabulous.
Published 24 days ago by sally@mdsc.demon.co.uk
5.0 out of 5 stars should of won the merc prize
was brought as a preesie its a chilled cd apart from 110% which is now called something else cant wait for new stuff
Published 26 days ago by lupy
5.0 out of 5 stars Great CD
Took me back to the 1980's a little, a real mix of tempo. A good listen in the car or long journeys!
Published 26 days ago by .......
5.0 out of 5 stars Quality
Some great grooves, often sparse production make up this superb chilled album - reminds me of a modern day version of M'tume in their You, Me and He/Theatre of the Mind phase. Read more
Published 26 days ago by J. Pettitt
4.0 out of 5 stars Very good listen, would definately reccomend
After hearing a couple of her singles on radio one I had to buy the album. It does not disappoint, and there is no track I do not like.
Published 1 month ago by T Blake
4.0 out of 5 stars Unique Style
A different sound and one that will definitely make it to the iPhone cut! Well done Jessie, lets have more, sounded great on those SBTRKT joints too...
Published 1 month ago by CL
4.0 out of 5 stars Soulful and relaxing
Really nice, chilled album - I went to see her at a gig in Cambridge, she has a lovely, soulful voice.
Published 1 month ago by Emily Davies
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