Following 2020’s What’s Your Pleasure? and 2023’s That! Feels Good!, as well as the successful food podcast Table Manners she hosts alongside her mother, the British pop singer continues to ride the 70s disco ball train, catering to the clever, kitsch and catchy with an ironic wink, adding also a luxuriant garden metaphor. I Could Get Used To This has a flamboyant orchestral soul and R&B silkiness, before jumping into easy disco funk celebrating pleasure with deep oohs and aahs. The title track is a nod to 70s Chicago soul with that extended love metaphor. Orchestral-decorated disco of Automatic opens with a deep voiced spoken intro from Euphoria star Colman Domingo, who has, rather conveniently in brand integration, been a guest on her podcast. Sauna, preceded by Chariots of Love Interlude (surely a reference to the famous gay sauna Chariots - and pressing the right buttons for a core audience) is an unabashed sweaty sigh to hot pleasure, going full on with lyrics such as: “If you wanna last longer / I don't need faster, I need stronger, take it to the sauna / Pour heat on the stones, people comin' and goin' / Need a red-hot physical touch / Baby, heighten my senses, not here to pretend/ I need a wood-chopping God-given love.” Mr Valentine adds more sensuality with a few spacey synths bursts and very catchy funk disco, but Ride, using a certain famous film riff by Ennio Morricone, and going full sexy cowboy, verges on the cheesily ridiculous. Don’t You Know Who I Am? is a definite, an electro-pop bathed in luxuriant vocal and a 70s orchestral swoop. Even including her three children on the soft focus 70s piano ballad 16 Summers, Ware is not afraid to indulge on all levels. Though perhaps not quite up the same banger count as That! Feels Good!, Ware continues to infectiously spread her sheer love of this genre with a kitschy, clever grace. Out on EMI/Universal.
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