Be Alone - Mara Liddle (Pop) Mara Liddle is back for the fourth time this year with “Be Alone”, a breakbeat led avant-garde dance number that reminds us a lot of 90s alternative pop. We are again treated to Mara’s intimate vocal performance, this time cutting through some swirling synth keys that cast a dizzying spell on the listener, making you feel like Alice tumbling down the rabbit hole. What always impresses us with Mara is the way she’s able to take something that should be a straight down the middle bubblegum pop number and add an element of danger and tension, twisting it every so slightly to imbue a bit of beautiful strangeness. We could hear this one on an early Kelis album.

Best Lyric: “The proof is right there in the way that you avoid my gaze.”