Alienbaby Collective

Alienbaby Collective is the solo project of Liú Mottes, a guitarist and songwriter from Amsterdam, now based in Berlin. After years of bending noise and melody into shape in bands like Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys, SOON, Silver Bones, Blue Crime, and Slow Worries, Alienbaby Collective pulls that same energy into a more personal orbit. Following the 2020 double EP Fishbowl / Terrestrial, Alienbaby Collective returns with Breakage, the first full-length album, out via Subroutine Records on September 2025. On Breakage, Liú refines the project’s sonic identity — at once immersive and fragile — layering soft, understated vocals over restless sonic landscapes. The result is music that feels both expansive and deeply inward-looking, inviting listeners into a tangible space full of friction and tenderness. When lyrics emerge, they do so in flashes — evocative, dreamlike, and brief. The album explores what it means to be present in a world that is always shifting and suggests that there is beauty in the act of witnessing those transformations. Rooted in years of collaborative noise-making and shaped by the solitude of solo work, Alienbaby Collective offers an album of songs that are a testament to what breaks apart and what remains.