Dave Armstrong & Redroche ft. H-Boogie - 'Love Has Gone'
NOT, in case you're confused, yet another reworking of 'Love Is Gone' by David Guetta. No this is an entirely new disco-house affair, even though the names are very similar, and the musical style. Although David's song did not have a morse-code motif running through it which seems to have taken direct inspiration from Van McCoy's immortal 'The Hustle', and so therefore loses on points.
And leaving the straight comparison aside, this is quite the densely-layered story of betrayal and bad blood, isn't it? There's a proper story, about suddenly finding out your man is cheating on you when you hear a little moan when you ring him while he's 'working late', and therefore dumping his cheating ass, and then sitting down to have a good sob, before hitting the dancefloor with your mates and trying to put the whole sorry mess behind you.
Euphoric dance music always works best when it's allied to a story of heartbreak and nastiess like this. The salty tears and sweet, sweet music mix together to form a song which is as uplifting as it is outraged. And this is a doozy, packed with angry sadness, and full-on righteous melancholy.
Of course, the great-grandma of songs like this is 'I Will Survive', one of the great dancing-and-crying songs of all time, and one which this song struggles to beat. Which is no criticism really, it's like saying that Mount Everest is small because it struggles to reach the moon.
Download: Out now
CD Released: November 26th
(Fraser McAlpine)
Comments
no way!!!
whilst i was reading this Love Is Gone by David Guetta came on the radio....
hate that song, but its very spooky!
I don't know the poin of this song but I like it. lol