'Nothing is for real, for real, not even now, makes me feel floating, floating, like a human alien'. Sandra van Nieuwland's fourth album is only just underway, when the former Voice of Holland participant already sets the tone. Human Alien has a strangely detached atmosphere, which you could indeed describe at times as extraterrestrial. And that is not necessarily a positive thing. The eleven songs,
… mostly self-written, are quite beautiful - that's not the problem - but hardly touch you anywhere. She sings from Nieuwland quite hypothermic. And that effect is reinforced by the cold synth sounds of producer ( , , ), which Tjeerd Bomhoff has relieved as a musical partner. And then halfway through there is suddenly that silly cover of 's Heart Of Glass. Would have done Clouds Across The Moon by . (RME)more