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Universal acclaim- based on 126 Ratings
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Positive: 117 out of 126
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Mixed: 2 out of 126
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Negative: 7 out of 126
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Aug 24, 2022Jessie ware is a gifted vocalist reminiscent of Nora Jones. This album is a pop gem that wafts like a delicate perfume. The songs are simplebut the vocals are light and powerful.
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Jun 26, 2020Definitely the best pop album of the 2010s in my opinion. Refined, forceful, powerful.
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Jan 19, 2015In its 55 minutes, Jessie Ware explores genres and moods with an admirable facility, and she succeeds in creating a pacific and ethereal atmosphere while sounding profoundly tortured and hurt. Devotion proves a nicely strong debut for a promising and triumphant career. It's worth a try.
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Feb 25, 2014Night Light and Taking In Water are individually not the most amazing of songs, but when with the rest of the album, although you may want to skip them, they blend in a little bit more with the sound of the album and work a little more. As a whole though, the songs on Jessie Ware's debut are generally tremendous, to make what is in itself, a generally flawless debut.
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Nov 17, 2013
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Sep 1, 2013
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Jul 3, 2013One of the most promising singers I've ever listened to, this album proved to be everything you could expect from a R&B artist, that is also flexible with her collaborations with electronic artists like SBTRKT and Disclosure.
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May 13, 2013
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Apr 11, 2013I love love love this album, really original, love the 90s influences, her voice is stunning, her live voice is even more stunning. I love how different every songs sounds. 9/10
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Apr 10, 2013
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Dec 18, 2012
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Dec 8, 2012I'm not sure what album the others were listening to - the one I heard has mediocre songs and performances and is incredibly overproduced - doesn't hold a candle to the great R&B or soul singers of the past - not even close to Sade!
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Dec 1, 2012This album is pure art and is so luscious. It's sweet. It's Gritty. It's Edgy. But It's soft all at the same time. Jessie Ware has a strong link between Sade and SBTRKT, with Lisa Standfield-like vocals and stunning undercovered musical tastes, This South Londoner's Debut has definitely become 'one of the best albums of the year.'
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Nov 18, 2012Jessie's music is very contemporary, relaxing and artistic, however I felt cold after listening to this album. I have to admit that some - if not most - of the songs are purely fillers. Some of the songs sound identical. This is a very elegant album but it lacks much personality.
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Oct 13, 2012
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Oct 6, 2012All of these new R&B artists don't have the same soul feeling like early Stevie Wonder or Anita Baker. None of them have any stand out hits . I feel a certain weakness in their R&B where there should be solid hits. I have a yearning to want to like this music, but they are coming up just a bit short. Sorry...
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Sep 6, 2012Despite Ware's assumed inspirations, Devotion is a wonderful piece of work concerning this current era of generic bubblegum pop. There's no place for auto-tune abuse here: everything is flowy, smooth and properly sultry when needed.
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Sep 4, 2012One of most interesting albums of the year. The songs are a great combination of pure Jessie Ware's voice and broken rhythmically electronic sounds. Pop of the highest quality.
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Apr 16, 2013The new songs on this already-strong collection only elevate the ceiling of Ware’s potential.
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Dec 7, 2012If this isn't the album of the year, it's at least the art-pop album of the year, or the neo-sophisti-pop album of the year, or--beside Frank Ocean's Channel Orange--the alternative R&B album of the year.
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Dec 4, 2012There's a youthful, warm energy emanating from Ware's vocals that enervates Devotion, making it more than a mere exercise in restrained, sophisticated sexiness.