Name: Glasshouse
Brand: Interscope
SKU: 155464771
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Glasshouse

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Album: Glasshouse
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Midnight	More Info...
2)	Thinking About You	More Info...
3)	Stay Awake, Wait for Me	More Info...
4)	Your Domino	More Info...
5)	Alone	More Info...
6)	Selfish Love	More Info...
7)	First Time	More Info...
8)	Hearts	More Info...
9)	Slow Me Down	More Info...
10)	Finish What We Started	More Info...
11)	Last of the True Believers (Feat. Paul Buchanan)	More Info...
12)	Sam	More Info...

Performer Notes

Liner Note Author: Edward Thomas .
Photographer: Tom Beard.
Jessie Ware's third album is packed with finely woven adult-pop ballads about lust, longing, commitment, and reassurance -- all traits shared with Devotion and Tough Love -- but it couldn't have been made at any other point in the artist's life. The singer and songwriter aimed to complete it by the time she gave birth to her daughter. After some critical straight talk from collaborator Benny Blanco, Ware scrapped an unspecified amount of new material and finished Glasshouse after her daughter was born. The album's standard edition closes with the lone song where the references to Ware's life are specific. Written before she had informed her mother of her pregnancy, "Sam" -- named after her husband -- articulates a mix of joy, gratitude, and anxiety via a predominantly acoustic ballad (an Ed Sheeran collaboration indeed). A listener oblivious to Ware's private life wouldn't know the full circumstances in which the other songs were written. When Ware sings about missing her baby on "Thinking About You," she means her newborn, with the sweetly yearning "I just wanna feel every little beat when I'm thinking 'bout you" the only obvious indicator that she's not referring to her partner. Glasshouse incorporates the work of over a dozen producers and roughly twice as many additional songwriters. The glistening "Last of the True Believers," a coup of a collaboration (though not a full-scale duet) with the Blue Nile's Paul Buchanan, tightens up the second half with Ware fantasizing about an intimate retreat from the city. That song deserves widespread maximum rotation, along with "Midnight," an exquisite pre-album single co-written and co-produced by wisest collaborative match Pop Wansel (Alessia Cara's "Here," Kehlani's "Distraction"). ~ Andy Kellman

Professional Reviews

Spin - "Though Ware's vocals are strong, her greatest strength is in soft power: guiding disparate songwriters toward her aesthetic."

Entertainment Weekly - "Ware makes the ins and outs of monogamy sound downright magical on her third record."

Clash (Magazine) - "'Midnight' is a stellar opening track, deeply atmospheric and boasting a subtly layered arrangement, packed with aural Easter Eggs."