I have to admit that reviewing the latest album by Alone, titled "Hourglass Escapee", isn't something that I found really easy. The fact is that Nikola Vitkovic for his album, released on the label Tonal Shifts run by Ivan Antunovic, didn't follow a scheme (which is good) but mixed genres in a way that sometimes needs a bit more concentration to be "encoded". He calls that: "apocalyptic maximalist electronica". Soundwise, we have a mix of i.d.m. rhythms and minimal synthpop electronica where most of the times vocals are half sung/half declaimed. This way of using the vocals creates a feeling of uneasiness which along with the coldness of the music creates the perfect background for the lyrics (you can find them here http://solair.eunet.rs/~scnet.phantom/hourglass.htm). After listening the album several times, if I should think about a comparison, I can think about an isolationist version of Sparks, because of the theatrical approach to the sound.
Is it working? Kind of... Something visual could help. Probably I'm missing something that it's contained in the CD, because I have only the files to check.The only think I can think of, it's that the common theme it's the attempt to adapt to time who's flying by... and it isn't something easy to reach.