What's Your Pleasure?

by Jessie Ware

What's Your Pleasure? cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 26 June 2020
  • Label: PMR, EMI, Virgin
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Community rating: 4.16/5 from 26 ratings

Artists on this release: Dave Okumu, Leo Taylor, James Ford

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Jessie Ware's fourth album, 'What's Your Pleasure?', is a critically acclaimed exploration of disco, post-disco, and house music, built around the sleek, detailed production of co-writer James Ford. Ware's commanding vocal performance channels disco divas of the past, delivering lyrics centered on escapism, seduction, and nocturnal pleasure across the record's tight songwriting. The album marked a significant commercial and critical peak for the artist, moving away from the balladry of her prior work to embrace a looser, more groove-oriented sound celebrated as a return to her club music roots.

Genres

Descriptors: dance, four-on-the-floor, club, sophisticated, nightlife

Tracklist

  1. Spotlight
  2. What’s Your Pleasure?
  3. Ooh La La
  4. Soul Control
  5. Save A Kiss
  6. Adore You
  7. In Your Eyes
  8. Step In To My Life
  9. Read My Lips
  10. Mirage (Don't Stop)
  11. The Kill
  12. Remember Where You Are

Credits

  • Jessie Ware - vocals, associated performer, Vocal
  • James Ford - keyboards, percussion, programming, synths, guitar, bass, drums, mixer, producer, recording engineer, associated performer, Engineer, Percussion, Synthesizer, Keyboard, Mix, Producer, Programming, Recording, Drums (drum Set), Guitar, Bass
  • Dave Okumu - guitar, associated performer, Guitar
  • Leo Taylor - drums, associated performer, Drums (drum Set)
  • Shungudzo - backing vocals, composer, lyricist, associated performer, Background Vocals Vocal
  • Danny Parker - backing vocals, composer, lyricist, associated performer, Background Vocals Vocal
  • Bim Amoako - backing vocals
  • Senab Adekunle - backing vocals, associated performer, Background Vocals Vocal
  • Morgan Geist - programming, producer, composer, Percussion, Synthesizer, Keyboard, Producer, Programming
  • Midland - synths, programming, producer, Synthesizer, Additional Producer, Programming
  • Joseph Mount - keyboards, programming, recording, producer, composer, Keyboard, Producer, Programming, Recording
  • Jules Buckley - string arranger, horn arranger, conductor, piano, strings, brass, associated performer, Conductor, Strings Arranger, Bass Arranger
  • Tom Pigott-Smith - violin, leader, associated performer
  • Lizzie Ball - violin, associated performer
  • Marianne Haynes - violin, associated performer
  • Laura Melhuish - violin, associated performer
  • Kate Robinson - violin, associated performer
  • Charlie Brown - violin, associated performer
  • Nicky Sweeney - violin, associated performer
  • Jeremy Isaac - violin, associated performer
  • Hannah Dawson - violin, associated performer
  • Oli Langford - violin
  • Vicci Wardman - viola, associated performer
  • Helen Kamminga - viola, associated performer
  • Reiad Chibah - viola, associated performer
  • Chris Worsey - cello, associated performer
  • Ian Burdge - cello, associated performer
  • Katherine Jenkinson - cello, associated performer
  • Richard Pryce - double bass, associated performer
  • Tom Walsh - trumpet, flugelhorn, associated performer
  • Louis Dowdeswell - trumpet, flugelhorn, associated performer
  • Andy Wood - trumpet, flugelhorn, associated performer
  • Callum Au - tenor trombone, associated performer
  • Dave Stewart - bass trombone, associated performer
  • Nigel Black - french horn
  • Richard Watkins - french horn
  • Clarence Coffee Jr. - backing vocals, composer, Background Vocals Vocal
  • Benji B - producer, composer, Producer
  • Adam Bainbridge - producer, composer, Keyboard, Producer, Programming, Additional Vocal
  • Matthew Tavares - producer, composer, Producer
  • Joe LaPorta - mastered by, mastering engineer
  • Billy Foster - engineering assistance, asst. recording engineer, Assistant Engineer
  • Matt Jaggar - engineering assistance, asst. recording engineer, Assistant Engineer
  • Lewis Jones - string and brass recording, recording engineer
  • George Oulton - engineering assistance, asst. recording engineer
  • Mat Maitland - creative direction
  • Dan Sanders - commission, creative, creative director
  • Rory Dewar - artwork
  • Carlijn Jacobs - photography
  • Elliot Thomas - artwork
  • Fascination Management - management
  • Big Active - creative director
  • Bazza - lacquer cut by
  • Tom Hull - composer
  • BIM - Background Vocals Vocal

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