Alan Walker feat. Noonie Bao – Alone

“That instrumental is going to take me some time to get used to.”

Tim: New one off Alan (seriously, how is he not using a stage name?), and I’ve a feeling it might prove divisive.

Tim: See, verses are great, and so’s the vocal part of the chorus. But ooh, that instrumental is going to take me some to get used to.

Tom: Okay. Surprising thing here: I liked it. Immediately.

Tim: Huh, curious. See, for me, while we’ve seen that volume dipping style before, the issue is that it’s played here almost as a feature to hang the whole track off, and I’m really struggling to accept it.

Tom: And I didn’t even notice it! Which is because, I think, it’s not just overcompression: it’s more clever than that. The entire staccato instrumental just leaves space for the percussion, rather than being crushed under it.

Tim: The rest of it, I love – the line underneath it, verse and vocal chorus like I said – but I’m really struggling not to be put off by that part.

Tom: I do think the vocals sound a bit like the verses of Bagger 288 though.

Tim: I’d somehow never seen that before. That’s quite something.