Listen Before You Buy

A live review of Active Child in Madrid with I Am Dive opening.

Watch Active Child take on the Eurythmics classic song, “Sweet Dreams”.

Superhumanoids go from strength to strength with every new track we hear.

This should be a lesson to you all. Never fish, ever again, or the most powerful fish might just take you away.

POLIÇA’s style is unmistakably original, fusing sounds first presented by Active Child, Gayngs or even Bon Iver to create sultry R’n'B rhythms over some stellar vocoded vocals.

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Listen to and download the new How To Dress Well mixtape “Change Yourself” below. If you’re the kind of person who tends to stay up late at the weekend and peruse the internets you might’ve seen How To Dress Well tweeting about a new song and mixtape he was about to drop. Well, that was back [...]

Listen to Active Child‘s “You Are All I See” below – Buy the album: Amazon | iTunes | Vagrant Records Active Child is the solo project of Los Angeles-based Pat Grossi, who had his beginnings as a choir boy and trained classical harpist. His songs blend elements of traditional religious music with electronic rhythms and lonesome lyrics, bringing a modern [...]

Listen to Active Child‘s new song “Diamond Heart” below, taken from the album “You Are All I See”. I’m sure you’ve seen us heaping praise after praise after mayonnaise on Active Child in the last few months, every single piece of it more than deserved, and so we thought we’d heap some more on like he’s [...]

Already firmly placed inside our Top Albums of 2011 list, Active Child’s “You Are All I See” is a sparse and somber listen, much like Balam Acab‘s debut album. You can imagine my surprise, then, when Chicago’s Houses managed to spin back and strip down the track that Active Child did with How To Dress Well, called “Playing [...]

Buy the album - Vinyl / CD I’m not going to don my weak-ass review cap and set about trying to do this album justice because we’ll have a proper review written by a proper writer at the proper time. What I will say is that Active Child‘s album “You Are All I See” is one of the [...]

If you follow us on Twitter you’ll know how excited I got when Jeremy over at Vagrant dropped off Active Child’s debut album “You Are All I See” in my inbox. I was fairly fucking excited, and I ended up listening to the album for most of the night. Over the last couple of months we’ve [...]

Like Vangelis but not as cheesy or parodied, Active Child’s been making moves lately with the songs he’s been putting up and the hauntingly beautiful soundscapes he’s created in and around them. With “Hanging On”, the last song of his we heard, the sound on said track was slow and rhythmic with gorgeous vocals and [...]

Photo by Brent Mullins There are few bands that can blow me away with one song, but Active Child‘s newest single from its upcoming debut album “You Are All I See” did just that.  ”Hanging On” is intoxicating and breathtaking in all the best ways.  The hypnotic, chorus-like vocals, attributed to Pat Grossi, pulls you [...]

A friend of Tom Krell’s is a friend of mine, and any friend of mine is a friend of yours. Until they show up at your door with a suitcase and a cat and expect you to house them for six weeks whilst they get on their feet but actually just sit around, watch your [...]