Peace & Patience

Peace & Patience

Irish dance-pop star Jazzy opens her debut album, Peace & Patience, with audio snippets of praise and pride gathered from her family and friends, leading into “My People”—a euphoric house pulse that kicks the record off proper. “Got everything that I want, got everyone that I love/Know that the feeling is right,” she sings, sounding more like the winner of a race that’s been run than a breakthrough talent still in the early stages of her career. Then again, with a handful of chart hits under her belt, live shows and DJ sets booked around the world, and what seems like an entire nation’s worth of love and support to come home to, there’s really no better position for a breakthrough talent to be in. The title track, which provides a bass-bumping arena for Jazzy to balance her blessings with her ambitions, puts voice to her pursuit of greater success. “Ain’t nothing left to prove/’Cause they just don’t know about you,” she sings, assured in the belief that there are only two types of people in the world: Jazzy fans and people who haven’t heard her music yet. That sense of confidence and contentment—one part prophecy, one part manifestation—persists throughout the entire record, from bubbly cuts like “Better Days” to the sultry Afropop-inspired “Fantasy.” Even songs that draw from life’s lowlights—momentum-building breakup anthem “Depart” or the Chris Lorenzo-assisted kiss-off “Invisible”—carry the same air of invulnerability, their existence only further proving that, with a grounding this solid, nothing can knock Jazzy off her stride.

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