Esore Alle – Love Made Me Do It (2025)
The Four Aces sang that “love is a many-splendored thing…” – beautiful, but they only skimmed the happier surface of true love with those smiling butterflies wiggling about your stomach. They didn’t reach down into the grittier, grungier, darker and creepier side of love; nothing in the way of Esore Alle’s ‘Love Made Me Do It’. Celebrating the tragic instances of life, Alle is unafraid to jump into the existential rabbit hole and take us along for the ride.
Alright, so who is this provocative rebel willing to lay bare the disturbed? Take a pinch of Mika, a dab of David Bowie, and a slip of Scissor Sisters, then bind it in a dramatic, theatrical blend of satire and seriousness, and you have Esore Alle. Hailing from the UK, they have been described as “…the weird star child of the next generation…”, so I’m eager to see what they have to offer.
Following their debut single, ‘I Never Knew What I Wanted’, Esore Alle continues to swagger through 2025 with ‘Love Made Me Do It’. Recorded and produced by Gavin Monaghan and Louise Russell, ‘Love Made Me Do It’ is a rush of cabaret bound with blips of jangle-pop, art-pop and alternative rock running through the kaleidoscopic waves of sound. Interestingly, while the track is high-paced and a toe-tapping sprint of music, a dip midway through the track acts like an eye in the sonic hurricane.
The melody itself is intriguing as a sophisticated arrangement of pounding drums, a twinkling guitar, and some bold riffs interspersed throughout; however, it is Alle’s vocals that seem to carry the song. Bold and confident, they traverse the range from tenor to falsetto with ease, oddly acting as an anchor despite the Mika-esque obscurity.
Fun and fancy-free, ‘Love Made Me Do It’ is dramatic and filled with fun – that’s melodically, though. Showcasing his way of entwining satire with sincerity, Alle delves into the issue of limerence in both heavy, happy, tender, tumultuous, and off-kilter ways. They explain:
“Love, lust, and limerence. Have you ever loved someone so badly that you’d rather kill them than not be with them… no? Well, I have, and this song relays this experience in a deeply satirical and ironic tune…”
Find out more about Esore Alle on their Instagram, TikTok and Spotify.
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