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Jessie Ware has delivered an album of the year with her fifth, ‘That! Feels Good!’ It’s proper disco done right, not Beyoncé, Lizzo, Dua Lupa or even some nu-disco imitation. Ware has researched her path, positively exploits the perfect peoducers and harks back accurately while brilliantly holding her space as a proper belter. She emanates sexual energy in a sexless era, encouraging pleasure in whatever form necessary, be it solo or other. Regardless, the album is a flawless 40 minutes and is, hyperbole speak aside, wall-to-wall banger. 🪩

Who here is a Feist fan?! It’s been six long years since ‘Pleasure’ and she’s been busy with life, adopting a daughter and moving from Canada to L.A. This is ‘Multitudes’, her sixth, and she sounds all brand new, inspired and well-armed with potent emotion and one of indie’s most distinctive voices of her generation. The perfect Friday night post-work spin, I adore her, it’s good to have her back. If you know, know — Leslie Feist is the bomb. Like coming home.