"Such Pretty Lies" by Esore Alle
Review
Esore Alle have today released their new single "Such Pretty Lies" which manages to be even more theatrical than "I Never Knew What I Wanted" which we were delighted to feature on ‘Hot Music Live Presents Volume Fifteen'.
You don't have to engage long with AJ Montague's music or posts to get how central (musical) theatre is to the sound and theme of the songs, but since my last article I found the discovery of a love of Kate Bush to be significant: you can trace this through the linkage of song and performance, the arrangements and most obviously the vocal style: though being able to hit notes that high certainly helps if it's her you wish to emulate.
As if these myriad clues were not enough, "Such Pretty Lies" is explicitly about the stage and I suppose refers to the artifice of drama and its seductive power which draws so many of us in despite our knowing that it's illusion & fantasy. The skill in putting across fictions is itself attractive as is the shared conspiracy between performer & audience to embrace the lies in good heart.
Like "I Never Knew What I Wanted", whose message was quite subversive in some ways, "Such Pretty Lies" sells itself through the jaunty accessibility of the music which has a whiff of the vaudeville in it. It doesn't lure you in as such since I think people will respond of their own free will, but it does indicate a handy method for Esore Alle to play the barker at will.
Esore Alle have a gig at The Tin on November 1st which is billed suitably as "A Night At The Theatre" supported by other HMLP favourites Zaruna & Ace Ambrose: what a lineup. Tickets are available via:
https://www.ticketweb.uk/event/esore-alle-presents-a-night-the-tin-at-the-coal-tickets/14545133
