{"id":800275,"date":"2019-10-11T06:11:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T12:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=895939"},"modified":"2019-10-11T06:11:24","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T12:11:24","slug":"romares-gone-is-a-stealthy-floor-filler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/romares-gone-is-a-stealthy-floor-filler\/","title":{"rendered":"Romare\u2019s \u2018Gone\u2019 Is a Stealthy Floor-Filler"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Romare-Press-2019-Dan-Medhurst-7306.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Forlorn vocal samples meet a bludgeoning bass line in \u201cGone,\u201d the first new track from the English producer Romare since 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGone\u201d opens with a leisurely ramp-up: A chunky beat, closer to 100 beats per minute then the brisk 120 commonly associated with house music; a repeating synth melody built from long, sustained lines; ringing, resonant, high-drama chords on the piano.<\/p>\n<p>Then the vocals begin to multiply. First comes a snippet of \u201cyou love nobody,\u201d pitch-shifted in the chipmunk-soul style; then an echoing chorus. A new variation on this theme \u2014 \u201cnobody but you\u201d \u2014 ushers in a mood-shift, and the bass morphs into something nasty and serrated. For the next two minutes, Romare\u2019s single chugs fiercely, as the bass repeatedly steamrolls stray vocal samples.<\/p>\n<p>The producer never allows the listener to hear an entire vocal line, but one word keeps popping up \u2014 \u201cgone.\u201d As the track reaches its final crescendo, around the seven-minute mark, it becomes even more anguished, with unbridled screams buried deep in the mix.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cGone\u201d 12-inch was released on Ninja Tune at the end of September.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/romare-gone-895939\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forlorn vocal samples meet a bludgeoning bass line in \u201cGone,\u201d the first new track from the English producer Romare since 2016. \u201cGone\u201d opens with a leisurely ramp-up: A chunky beat, closer to 100 beats per minute then the brisk 120 commonly associated with house music; a repeating synth melody built from long, sustained lines; ringing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-800275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 14:23:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}