Blog: mostly junkfood

The disposition carried with the label "quiet storm" is one of a noticeably subdued manner. The Frankie Beverly and Maze, Sade, Bill Weathers and Janet Jackson's of the late night, lustful FM croon carry with them a binding responsibility to be both emotionally expositional, yet deft in their intonation. Jessie Ware is bound too, but it's of her own doing. From her breakthrough appearance on SBTRKT's "Nervous", (of which she earned her label ink) Ware has effectively fleshed out her niche in conjunction with, not in reaction to, her clearly derivative contemporaries. Her debut, Devotion [...]