Indie Light

Ali McGowan is a central-belt-based musician and solo recording artist, who also performs and operates under the names ‘Klone’ and ‘Freonic’. If you’re interested in finding out more about the Ali then you can check out my interview with them by clicking here. I discovered Ali over on Tumblr, meaning I finally have a better use for the Indie Light Tumblr than for finding fan art of John Watson and Sherlock Holmes in passionate embrace. Today, I will be reviewing their single ‘My Name is Ali’ which was released October 2017.

‘My Name is Ali’ has a very vibrant, electronic, video game style intro, build techno chords that just make me wanna reach for my nearest controller. I like this track a lot, it has energy but I wouldn’t say it’s necessarily upbeat, but it does do a lot over the seven minute track, so it’s never dull, and always keeps you engaged. I think because it sounds so video game like I’m internally picturing overcoming some sort of obstacle and that lines up with what I’ve gathered about the song from the artist herself, it’s about coming to grips with identity which can often be a very hard obstacle.

So that’s what I thought of the track, and if you want to listen to it for yourself and maybe even buy a copy then check it out on bandcamp. You can also keep up to date with Ali via her Twitter.