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Active Child is pleased to announce the release of his debut album You Are All I See on August 29th via Vagrant Records. The album was produced by Ariel Rechtshaid and features 10 new tracks. The album comes as a follow-up to last years critically-acclaimed Curtis Lane EP.
One of those tracks, Playing House, is a collaboration with lo-fi r&b singer How To Dress Well and was recently premiered on Pitchfork. Listen to the song over at Active Childs website,
The Fader praised the song highly, noting The cascading piano line that introduces this duet is too perfect, spiraling like an Alice in Wonderland techno-trip into fantasy R&B, like spelunking the deep internet without a safety USB cord. Pairing bedroom falsetto connoisseurs Active Child and How to Dress Well, Playing House rivals heights of collaborative Autowarble last seen in Kanyes weird work with Bon Iver. The boys always threaten to take homage over-the-top, but Playing House is undeniable magic.
Active Child is the musical project from choirboy-turned-indie pop musician Pat Grossi. His debut collection of songs featured the skilled use of various 80s-tinged synths to create ethereal, soaring soundscapes, punctuated by crisp electronic drum samples and handclaps. All of this lays the groundwork for Grossis exquisite vocals, which, with their unearthly sound and evocative lyrics, take on an enchanting, hymnal quality that would not be out of place amongst the richly colored sunlight of a churchs stained-glass interior.
A solemn kind of white winter hymntronica the instrumentation and singing on and general atmosphere of these songs is just crying out to be described in quasi-religious terms. The Guardian
Synth swirls, freefalling harps and operatic croons like a beautiful apparition
She Was A Vision, 75 best tracks of 2010 NME
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