Something That Won’t Let Go

Jessie Ware’s voice on "Sweet Talk" sounds like someone holding a door closed—all that pressure behind the restraint. Her debut Devotion arrived in 2012 and became one of those records that aged better than almost anything released alongside it: not loud about itself, not insistent, just endlessly rewarding attention. This song in particular moves the way the best soul music moves—unhurried, precise, slightly dangerous. The kind of thing you keep coming back to at 2 AM because something in it won’t resolve.