Jessie Ware - What You Won't Do For Love

This blog is slowly becoming a Jessie Ware and Frank Ocean appreciation sight ( new Frank coming straight from the man himself but that's for the next post.) but hey, they deserve it.

The Bobby Caldwell cover was first performed by Jessie and Sampha at Boilerroom but about year later we've been given a studio version (of course there's a little backing vocal of Sampha who has been smashing it with SBTRKT this year0. Compared to her official releases it may seem under produced but her voice carries anything she sings on. It's almost a testament to how much she can do with so little.

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Jessie Ware - Running official video

She is the Queen.

This is Ms Ware's first single coming from her debut album. After countless collaborations on the SBTRKT album, The Vision with Joker and last years Valentine with Sampha she's finally coming into her own and releasing her own material. Only a few years ago she was belting backing vocals for Jack Penate, but Running sees her taking a softer approach which she attributes to working on the SBTRKT album.

It's produced by Dave Okumu and Julio Bashmore of PMR records to which Jessie is signed. Running is the ultimate sultry soul track, reminiscent of Soul II Soul and Sade. Each line is laced with harmonies. The guitars are so sexy that they border on the line of melodic porn. Simply hypnotic. And of course, she looks like a goddess in the video directed by the visual genius that is Kate Moross.

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