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What Allie is and isn‘t was the subject of some controversy when the Berlin-based musician released his third album in 2013. <a href="spotify:album:6jJcr58GVjmVgdpmdcNwVu" data-name="Uncanny Valley">Uncanny Valley</a> “hooks itself onto your soul like a Velcro” and is probably “too good to be true,” ZEIT Online marveled. To Byte.FM, the songs sounded “sweet and sad and sticky, like a bag of candy from the kiosk.” Rote Raupe heard an “enchanting, stand-alone record that impresses with wit, coolness and eccentricity” while Whiskey Soda labeled him the “quietest rapper in the world”.
Rapper, Velcro or candy: Allie became quiet in New York, of all places, in a badly-soundproofed bedroom that forced him to whisper. His six-months stay in the winter of 2009 involved his first live show and a cameo in a film starring the great Paul Giamatti (Sideways, Barney’s Version). Before that, he had already joined his brother and a childhood friend in a teenage punk band, that put out “fun music just for the hell of it” until 2007.
Now, after working in the studio with Johann Scheerer (Clouds Hill) for <a href="spotify:album:6jJcr58GVjmVgdpmdcNwVu" data-name="Uncanny Valley">Uncanny Valley</a>, Allie returned for his fourth album <a href="spotify:album:0QIxK7EjW4cnTfqiDGM4Mc" data-name="Allie">Allie</a> to his DIY-roots of his earlier works <a href="spotify:album:62Q3IjEEhZjgapf1AXjZuI" data-name="Mimi King">Mimi King</a> (2010) and <a href="spotify:album:2x4wNJWagmAhoLBsHYTI2n" data-name="New Friends">New Friends</a> (2011). On it, he brings the opposites together. In a unique blend of robotic compositions and dynamic acoustics, somewhere between uncanny imminence and warm intimacy, he introduces emotions to the cool world of electronics. Trap, New-Age and Folk conflate into a many-faceted sound cosmos that is accompanied by multi-layered whispers.<br>
Rapper, Velcro or candy: Allie became quiet in New York, of all places, in a badly-soundproofed bedroom that forced him to whisper. His six-months stay in the winter of 2009 involved his first live show and a cameo in a film starring the great Paul Giamatti (Sideways, Barney’s Version). Before that, he had already joined his brother and a childhood friend in a teenage punk band, that put out “fun music just for the hell of it” until 2007.
Now, after working in the studio with Johann Scheerer (Clouds Hill) for <a href="spotify:album:6jJcr58GVjmVgdpmdcNwVu" data-name="Uncanny Valley">Uncanny Valley</a>, Allie returned for his fourth album <a href="spotify:album:0QIxK7EjW4cnTfqiDGM4Mc" data-name="Allie">Allie</a> to his DIY-roots of his earlier works <a href="spotify:album:62Q3IjEEhZjgapf1AXjZuI" data-name="Mimi King">Mimi King</a> (2010) and <a href="spotify:album:2x4wNJWagmAhoLBsHYTI2n" data-name="New Friends">New Friends</a> (2011). On it, he brings the opposites together. In a unique blend of robotic compositions and dynamic acoustics, somewhere between uncanny imminence and warm intimacy, he introduces emotions to the cool world of electronics. Trap, New-Age and Folk conflate into a many-faceted sound cosmos that is accompanied by multi-layered whispers.<br>
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