“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.”