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Stream: Active Child’s Album You Are All I See

It’s crazy how with You Are All I See Active Child made an album that sounds like rain falling on a skylight. Not literally, though. It’s just that it’s a completely solitary record (except when … read more »

POSTED August 16, 2011 12:22PM IN MP3 / STREAMS Comments (1) TAGS: , ,
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Stream: Active Child, “Hanging On”

On August 23rd, Vagrant will release Active Child’s debut LP You Are All I See. It’s a gorgeous, ballsy record that features a duet with How to Dress Well. A duet! Risky move. But it … read more »

POSTED July 1, 2011 1:45PM IN MP3 / STREAMS Comments (5) TAGS: , ,
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Stream: Active Child f. How to Dress Well, “Playing House”

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 … read more »

POSTED June 7, 2011 2:30PM IN MP3 / STREAMS Comments (2) TAGS: , ,
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Video: Active Child, “I’m In Your Church At Night”

Active Child, aka Pat Grossi, released one of the more staggering pieces of music this year with his Curtis Lane EP, a half dozen hymnals that should be playing while thousands of young romantics stand … read more »

POSTED November 23, 2010 4:00PM IN MUSIC VIDEO Comments (1) TAGS: ,

Merok Autumn Sampler

We’re at that point in the summer where we catch ourselves getting kind of excited for fall. Of course we then check ourselves because once this beautiful weather is gone, it’s gone for awhiilllllle. Merok, … read more »

POSTED August 19, 2010 4:15PM IN MP3 / STREAMS TAGS: , , , , ,
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Active Child Live on Morning Becomes Eclectic

For having the same voice as a baby angel, Pat Grossi sure looks like a regular guy. Active Child is Grossi’s harp playing, magnificently choral project. The renditions of his songs live on the radio … read more »

POSTED July 28, 2010 12:00PM IN MP3 / STREAMS TAGS: ,
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The FADER Issue 68 Free Download

We used to know a subset of people who said the only new music they listened to was made by their friends. If it wasn’t classic or obscure or weird or just anything but current, … read more »

POSTED June 22, 2010 11:01AM IN MAGAZINE, MUSIC Comments (8) TAGS: , , , , , , , , , ,
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Premiere: The FADER Issue 68 Featuring MIA, Wavves, Ariel Pink and The-Dream

Although it’s already been blazing hot on a level that makes the doomsayers in our office predict a city-wide blackout any day now, we’re officially not allowing summer to start until June 22nd, when The … read more »

POSTED June 8, 2010 11:15AM IN MUSIC NEWS Comments (1) TAGS: , , , , , , , , ,
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Stream: Active Child’s Curtis Lane EP

Two crucial Active Child details are he was a former choirboy and he plays a harp. There’s other information, like the drum machine, loops, California, heavy keys. He’s not Joanna Newsom, nor is he Duran … read more »

POSTED June 1, 2010 11:00AM IN MP3 / STREAMS Comments (4) TAGS: ,

An Active Child Made A Nice Video For Active Child's "Wildnerness"

A good man by the name of Jheri Evans knows a good song when he hears one. And then he finds some good visuals and puts the two good things together to equal the above … read more »

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