When asked about her music, Alise says: „As I consider myself as a pretty shy person, it's always been very hard for me to talk about the things that are happening to me, what I think or feel. For a long time I kept it all to myself, until I unexpectedly found songwriting being the way I could finally talk to others and myself honestly.”

Alise’s debut album, consisting of 12 self-penned songs, was recorded mostly by herself with a little help from her brother during the hot summer of 2010 in a country house. Mixed by Krišjānis Geidāns in Riga and mastered by Björn Hansell in Stockholm, it was released under „I Love You Records” label in 2011.

In November and December 2012 Alise played several shows outside of Latvia for the first time, performing in Paris, France, and Portugal.