After about two years of intensive work Caroline Alves releases her first album. A diverse work about the night and the nightlife, the figures who move in it and about the complicated worlds of emotions that these dark hours can bring to light. After the young Biel-based artist with Brazilian roots first drew attention to herself in 2017 with her EP "Unbound", the time of "Moonlight" has come. For this she teamed up with the Olten-based producer duo Stereotyp and delivers 8 songs that sometimes enrapture, sometimes astonish, sometimes care and sometimes worry - but always move you in one way or another and get under your skin. Moonlight - this is eight impressive and lovingly produced songs, which do not hide themselves even from difficult topics. Self-doubt, escape, excesses, failed relationships and fear of loss are the recurring themes - and yet there is always this hopeful, rousing impression and incredible power that you wouldn't expect from this petite person at first glance. This very ambivalence is also perfectly expressed in the lead single " Sticks and Stones ". On the one hand, the song is an incredibly danceable track that goes straight to the legs with its rousing rhythm. On the other hand, the lyrics are encouraging and motivating - and yet they suggest that this is not the cliché of some wannabe pop star, but that this is a young artist singing herself free from her demons. Same with the single " Mamasaya ", with which the work on the album began. The happy sounding chorus could easily hide the depth of the lyrics, which are about disorientation and the "war against one's own self". Or if you take a closer look at "B lank Page ", which was played on the radio throughout Switzerland, you will discover the story of a tragic end to a relationship and about keeping moving and having a fresh new start. “ Like a Stone " can be placed in the same emotional situation. In this jazzy, subtly electronically arranged song, you can literally feel the breathed pain. The lively and melancholic number manages the listener nevertheless - or just therefore? - with a pleasant warmth. " Dizzy " is about the time immediately afterwards: The forgetting, the celebration and not being able to go home from the party anymore. Or want to. The night turns seamlessly into the morning, and just like the song, happy moments and undiluted melancholy come to life. So even the lively rhythm does not deceive about the ambivalence, which might be very familiar to many partygoers. In " Happens at Night " the artist describes the experience of a panic attack. The feeling of not being able to move or breathe normally and slowly but surely losing your mind. Until at some point, one is unable to do anything else but repeatedly resort to the chemistry that promises relief and numbs the feelings. Probably seldom has such a heavy topic been packed so sugary sweet. The title track of the album, to which KT Gorique contributed a feature part, is an ode to the night and the characters moving in it. Artists, lovers, the sad ones, the ones drinking alone and even the moon itself are honored with " Moonlight ". Accompanied by heavy, oscillating synthesizers, " Cherry " crowns the end of the album and represents a more than worthy finale. Embedded in a percussive heartbeat, the song is about the innocence, the beauty and the incredible struggle of a young woman who has to earn her money as a prostitute. The energetic and almost epic outro of the album closes the frame of " Moonlight " perfectly. Because nobody is left alone in the bittersweet and at times almost sinister-looking world of Caroline Alves. At the same time it invites us to enter it again and again and to discover it completely new with different moods.