“As the opening chapter of Headwinds, ‘Moon Come Down’ suggests Almost Alive are no longer merely experimenting with the space between music and technology. They are beginning to make that space entirely their own.”

“There’s a particular kind of musician who doesn’t just listen to music - they dismantle it. They hear a song and immediately start pulling at its threads, asking why the drums hit where they do, why that guitar tone cuts through the way it does, why a chorus lands with the weight of something inevitable rather than something constructed. Evan Kanter is that kind of musician.”

“For an industry still working out how to think about AI-generated music - how to categorize it, how to platform it, how to evaluate it critically - Almost Alive offers a useful corrective. The question was never whether AI could make music. It was always whether the music was any good. ‘Deep Down’ is very good indeed.”