Jessie Ware

Jessie Ware has been one of the best artists in British pop for over a decade, and her evolution from the sophisticated electronic-soul of her early records to the disco-inflected dance music of What’s Your Pleasure? and That! Feels Good! has been one of the more satisfying career arcs in contemporary pop. Superbloom, out April 10, is the sixth album.

The singles suggest she’s continuing in the direction of the last two records while going deeper. “I Could Get Used to This” is lush disco-R&B with strings, the kind of production that requires the confidence to commit fully to opulence without irony. “Ride” and “Automatic” build the picture of an album that knows exactly what it’s doing and does it without apology.

What Ware does that distinguishes her from the many artists currently working in similar sonic territory: she writes about real relationships with the kind of specificity that makes the generalized dance floor feeling feel personal. That! Feels Good! was ostensibly a party record and was also genuinely about love, loss, and the fear of losing things you value. Superbloom, she’s said, digs even deeper into that territory.

Stuart Price is among the producers, which explains some of the polish. James Ford, who has worked with Arctic Monkeys and Foals, brings something different. The combination suggests a record that can hold both of those tonal registers, which is exactly what the best disco-influenced pop does.

Superbloom is out April 10 on EMI.