Jessie Ware returns with her sophomore album ‘Tough Love’, released through Island Records this week.

Featuring the title track ‘Tough Love’ - written last May, “after a really gruelling period of shows” - the record draws on the suave, svelte palette of synths and bass heard on Jessie’s debut LP ‘Devotion’, combining this with elevated choruses and lush arrangements.

Speaking about her follow up album Jessie explains “It’s been an interesting year, I got engaged, I’ve had all these new experiences. And there’s some of that on the record, but I still wanted to return to that theme from the first record of unrequited love. I was drawing on a lot of past experiences, cleansing myself of those demons. Even songs I thought I’d imagined on the day, I now totally realise that they’re about a certain boy or a certain time. I’m trying to get this all out before I’m going to be a happily married woman.”

Working alongside executive producers BenZel ‘Tough Love’ demonstrates a huge leap in both production and songwriting, with Jessie’s stunning vocal brought to the fore.

Jessie has a lot to be proud of on this record - this is more than a musical evolution, this also marks the beginning of Jessie Ware - not the backing singer or the club-track vocalist or the girl done good - but the star. “I can’t keep going round going ‘oh my god, this is happening.’ I feel more confident and I think that shows on the record, even the way I deliver the vocals is more upfront. Being a singer is a f***ing wicked job, but it’s definitely my job now.”