"Mum, I Did Drugs!" by Esore Alle
Review
Having a pretty unique identity is a good indicator of creative integrity and must help with clear promotion too.
There aren't too many artists whom I've written about who might potentially put out a single called "Mum, I Did Drugs!" (it comes out on April 24th) and Esore Alle is top of the list.
As a title, it's the sort of provocation which if it comes, can either peter out into little more than just that initial inspiration, so it's even more to the credit of with AJ Montague and collaborators Gavin Monaghan (producer) and Louise Russell followed through with a song which built intelligently & compulsively on it.
Even more impressively is the sense of spontaneity: the song was created in a single overnight session (you can join me if you wish in any speculation over how much, if any, pharmaceutical aid they had in staying the course).
The key is in the title: it's a song of teenage confession of a milestone first experience & I'm glad to say the response is supportive & compassionate.
That's the top level of the lyrics. Underneath, Esore Alle takes it progressively down through the physical experiences to invocations of the mind trip.. which are, as you would expect, more impressionistic and evocative.
Still farther down, the question posed is the fundamental "is this sort of behaviour a Good Thing?" to which the answer provided is "there is no light without dark" (though that might have been the answer to another question I suppose).
All this rumination sits on top of another perky arrangement which certainly has no sign of any fatigue which might have understandably crept into such a session. The falsetto vocals might well reflect the subject matter and the consciously 90's track sound no doubt pay tribute t a particular era when drugs & dance clasped hands.
It's interesting what other commentators have already said about it: I've been beaten to the suggestion that Esore Alle's music might itself be addictive and I would not have come up with the idea that this is a Gen Z version of ego death being particularly well articulated so I'm happy to pass that on.
