Active Child is hard to pin down. "When Your Love Is Safe" burbles with those same, Prozac synths Passion Pit are so fond of - and shit's not been that optimistic since the Fifties. Then there's the voice, which belongs to LA's Pat Grossi and moans, beguiling and brilliant, like the ghost of Celine Dion's soulmate (i.e. Leo Di Caprio when he floats off shivering into the Atlantic). We're gonna neck a few Ritalin and try to get into Pat's headspace. Wish us luck, and bask in the greatness of these til we return, sunk-eyed and worn down.
Sounds Like: Antony & The Johnsons, Telepathe, The Cars' "Drive" as sung by Justin Vernon and Celine Dion
Active Child - When Your Love Is Safe
Active Child - Wilderness
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HEALTH are a Monday morning blues band who sound like they were there on the first ever Monday morning and have been suffering Monday mornings once a week since. Whenever Jake Duzsik opens his mouth nothing seems to come out but a heart-bursting emptiness - so with this sultry remix the laudable CFCF carefully scrapes the singer off the floor and wraps him in warming blankets of steel drum and soft synth. Does this sound vaguely MOR to you? Yeah, it's HEALTH, but MOR. I know you're so tired of seeing that every week.
Sounds Like: The Knife, Memory Tapes, Toto
HEALTH - Before Tigers (CFCF Rmx)
Previously:
HEALTH - Triceratops (Acid Girls 2STEPS2FREEDOM MIX)
HEALTH - Triceratops (Acid Girls' 'Before Dancefloorasaurases Ruled The Earth Mix')
HEALTH - The Problem Is (Thrust Lab Remix)
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Remember when Scarlett Johansson put out a record? No tragedy by any means, if memory serves me right, but it did all seem a bit dismally comfortable in the end, what with David Bowie’s dad-like presence and Dave Sitek’s tendency to wrap the actress’s throat in so much layered sound she may as well’ve been singing through a scarf. Now, imagine if Anywhere I Lay My Head had been produced by U.S. Girls’ Megan Remy and featured a singer raised on arias and no-wave. Struggling? Try jamming “Last Day” – running barely beyond a minute, it’s a shotgun funeral of a song. “Sea Talk”, meanwhile, marries depth charging bass with delicately keyed ephemera in the same way that Telepathe do on next year’s Dance Mother LP – but instead of Busy Gangnes and Melissa Livaudais coolly recounting forest-bound death f*cks, there is singer Nika, with swollen heart melodrama. Evoking all manner of things – cigarettes in the rain and the lost glamour of old Europe; Toto and Suicide – Zola Jesus conjure cinema from the longing of lo-fi sounds for more expensive fidelity, Nika breathing sweet everythings through the mist into your cold, undeserving ears.
Sounds Like: Nite Jewel, the 1980s, The Hospitals
Zola Jesus - Last Day
Zola Jesus - Sea Talk
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