Description
Alice is a song that misunderstands itself: its misidentification oscillates between a journey down an algorithmic corridor spiraling into deeper and deeper despair and a feverish search for data about a lover who was never written into its code. Lost amid the circuitry of its own longing, it twists through endless headspace.
This dark theme is mirrored in a production that feels as if it could shatter at any moment within its compelling groove. Chopped and sliced samples jitter through the mix, metallic bells stutter and throb, the sound of fractured memories replaying themselves. Wrapped around, a heavily processed guitar line carries the song, while the bass pulses with the rhythm of a heavy-beating heart. Liquid, submerged synth lines ebb and flow beneath it all.
Influenced by R&B and pop tropes—but bending them to their own will—Borokov Borokov conjures a strangely addictive sonic hallucination. Meanwhile Youniss’s voice moves through this dreamscape like a haunting signal, seductive but detached, drawing the listener toward voluntary disintegration.
“What you fear, you get for free
… Are you with me, Alice?”
Hand-claps sound like triggers. Somewhere, a mirror breaks.