This innovative sound might have slipped under your radar and that’s not okay!!
Right, so here’s the thing. Almost Alive dropped ‘Deep Down’ a little while back — a proper grunge banger that turned a few heads and got people paying attention to what Evan Kanter is building over in New Jersey. And rightfully so. But in all the excitement about where Almost Alive is heading with the upcoming Undercurrent album, it feels like people haven’t quite given enough time to where the project has been — specifically, the album Pulse and the single ‘Pieces Click.’
So let’s fix that.
‘Pieces Click’ is one of those tracks that doesn’t immediately announce itself as something special. It arrives, it locks in, it starts moving — and before you’ve really clocked what’s happening, you’re three listens deep and slightly annoyed that you have other things to do with your afternoon. It’s got this tight, pulsing rhythm underneath everything that just works, layered up with glitchy synth textures and guitar lines that weave around each other in a way that feels both precisely engineered and genuinely alive.
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And that’s the Almost Alive thing, isn’t it? The whole project runs on Suno and ChatGPT — AI production tools, start to finish — and yet it consistently manages to sound like music made by someone who actually cares about how it lands. Which, to be fair, Kanter very clearly does. The man grew up on Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Foo Fighters — that emotional directness is baked into everything he makes, even when the production is pushing into more electronic, experimental territory like it does on Pulse.
‘Pieces Click’ sits conceptually in that moment just before everything makes sense — the noise organising itself, the scattered stuff beginning to click into place. It’s a relatable enough idea, but what makes it work is that the track sounds like that sensation rather than just describing it. Dynamic, layered, built to reveal something new every time you go back to it. Think Tool’s structural instincts, Radiohead’s restless texturing, Nine Inch Nails’ industrial precision — all filtered through a genuinely independent creative vision.
With Undercurrent arriving this summer and ‘Hit Refresh’ dropping in May, there’s plenty more to look forward to. But do yourself a favour and spend some time with Pulse first. ‘Pieces Click’ in particular. It’s the kind of track that rewards the attention.
Almost Alive’s ‘Pieces Click’ and the album Pulse are out now on all major platforms.
