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First Listen Preview: Jessie Ware finds solace in a new dancefloor on the joyous Free Yourself

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Jessie Ware knows a thing or two about the dancefloor. Her last album - What's Your Pleasure? - was one of the great pop records of 2020, a stunning body of work that saw Jessie re-affirm herself and the music she made under the shade of opulent post-disco.

It pulled from the underground New York scene of the 1980s, hi-NRG and handbag house. It was a revelatory body of work, re-positioning Jessie as one our most prominent purveyors of the dancefloor, even if it was released during the height of lockdown, when you struggled to believe you would ever get to dance again.

We were lucky enough to get an exclusive First Listen of Free Yourself, and can reveal that it more than defies the already lofty expectations for Jessie's new material. "Free yourself," Jessie demands, on a chorus that sounds like its backed by a choir of 100s. "Keep on climbing up that mountain top.

Why don't you please yourself? If it feels so good, then don't you stop." Produced by the indomitable Stuart Price (Kylie, Madonna, Dua Lipa) and co-written by Clarence Coffee Jr. (who was responsible for large swathes of Future Nostalgia's brightest moments), it's a shimmering ode to self-determination and emancipation.

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