Jessie Ware

Jessie Ware

From Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond by Pushkin Industries

April 14, 2026 · 46 min · Season 6 · Episode 204

About this episode

Jessie Ware discusses her musical evolution and the creation of her new album 'Superbloom' after a challenging year.

Jessie Ware has always moved between worlds. She's a British soul singer who spent the early part of her career making intimate, understated records. Then, in 2020, she released What's Your Pleasure? and morphed into a full-blown disco goddess. The record received widespread critical acclaim, earned Jessie her first top-three album on the UK charts, and was nominated for British Album of the Year at the BRITs. Today Jessie traces that sonic evolution back to an especially ripe creative period in her life, when she launched Table Manners , the podcast she hosts with her mom Lennie. Table Manners has become one of the UK's most beloved shows, racking up over 60 million listens, and in turn gave Jessie a new kind of confidence. This month Jessie is releasing Superbloom , her sixth album. As she has since What's Your Pleasure? , Jessie A&Rs the record herself, staying carefully in control of every creative decision. Her production team included core collaborator James Ford, the producer behind landmark records with Arctic Monkeys, Depeche Mode, Florence and the Machine, and Blur. As well as three-time Grammy winner Stuart Price, best known for producing Madonna's Confessions on a…

People in this episode

Guest: Jessie Ware

Topics covered

  • music
  • creativity
  • podcasting
  • disco
  • album release

Keywords

  • Table Manners
  • What's Your Pleasure?
  • Superbloom
  • British Album of the Year
  • disco goddess

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Superbloom, Table Manners

Books & works: What's Your Pleasure, Table Manners, Superbloom, Grammy, Confessions on a Dance Floor, Day & Age, Ride, Sauna

Places: UK

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