2023-05-04 10:00:48
With That ! Feels Good !Jessie Ware invites a generous letting go on the dancefloor thanks to her elastic voice and a wild infectious joy.
Slowly, but surely, the disco returns to the charge, still as flamboyant and enticing as before. It is no longer just at the center of remixes of all kinds or brought up to date by lovers of “vintage” sounds, but defended by artists, more or less seasoned, whose modernity is indisputable. To the point that today, the genre offers itself the favors of the majors and sways to the top of the musical rankings.
For the record, in 2020, when the whole world was placed at a standstill and, by trickle, the nightclubs were plunged into darkness for a long time, we were still entitled to a daring triptych : an album by Kylie Minogue (entitled, to mislead no one, Disco), preceded by a few months by that of Dua Lipa, Future Nostalgia, extolled. Stuck between the two, Róisín Murphy and his “avatar”, Roisin Machine.
Push back the night ever further
All different and carrying a common DNA: that of the disco ball, high heels and “pie shovel” collars. This year, a new production has everyone in agreement: That ! Feels Good ! which, as its name suggests, invites a generous letting go on the dancefloor and under the stroboscopes. Behind the call to push back the night ever further, there is a diva who does not pretend: Jessie Ware.
The latter, still in 2020, had laid the first stone of her evolution, in a rich career but until then confined to the soul-R’n’B sphere. What’s your pleasure ?, a colorful and shimmering disc cut for the fever of summer evenings, would give it a new impetus. But let’s face it, her parentage leaned more towards Madonna or Whitney Houston than Donna Summer or Gloria Gaynor.. It was only a matter of time.
The whole, stuffed with hits, knows no false note
Because with That! Feels Good!, she lets go for good of her penchant for pop (which Beyoncé or Lizzo, for example, already magnify) and forgets about synthetic and electronic neck effects. No, with this fifth album, she is authentic, with a good dose of hedonism and impeccably oiled mechanics, Chic style of the great era. She who is at the head (with her mom Lennie) of one of the most popular cooking podcasts (Table Manners) necessarily knows the recipe on the fingertips, and, good student, applies it to the letter on ten songs.
With the help of producers specializing in disco like Stuart Price and James Ford, Jessie Ware managed the feat of dusting off the genre while remaining faithful to the source material. And over barely forty minutes that spin without restraint, everything happens: shovelful choirs (with gospel accents), sweet strings, lush brass, “house” synthesizers and luminous grooves à la Giorgio Moroder, carried with mastery by the group Kokoroko, yet more at ease in afrobeat and funk. Without forgetting two other weighty assets : an elastic voice and a wild, communicative, even unifying joy.
For all this, That! Feels Good! does not at any time sound like a pale remake of productions from the 1970s. the ambient gloomy in a great enjoyment, the whole, stuffed with hits, knows no false note. In a natural elegance, Jessie Ware takes everyone by the hand and leads them until the early morning behind an implacable formula: “Freedom is a sound, and pleasure is a right” (“Freedom is a sound, and pleasure is a right.”) Before striking a “Do it Again” which, this spring, is likely to be repeated for a long time in the amps.
Jessie Ware. That ! Feels Good ! Born on April 28th. Label EMI Records. Disc genre
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