Active Child - Curtis Lane EP

[Merok : 2010]

I woke up this morning feeling like I do most mornings: grumbling, recovering from really messed up dreams, sleep in the eyes, muscles twitchy, desperate for ten cups of tea. I cut two pieces of bread in the most un-uniform way imaginable and jammed into the toaster one that was absurdly thick, another that had an enormous hole due to my serially bad visual-spatial skills (combined with a shithouse bread knife). I couldn’t find anything to wear and I think I have an ingrown finger nail. It hurts like the seventh circle of hell is overheated. I hit my arm on the bedroom door on my funny bone and there was fuck all ‘funny’ about it. The toothpaste situation was dire and Gerald, the papier mache giraffe I live with, was disrespecting me from underneath a trucker cap. Screw you, Gerald. You know what happened then? My funny bone hurts, my teeth are angry, my muscles keep twitching and the bread is still cut retardedly; but the day is as warm, as hopeful and as feel-good as a great first date. Curtis Lane - the exquisite EP by Active Child has just arrived at the local post office and it sounds kind of like a hug from a benevolent robot made of sunshine and moon beams. Memory Tapes and Washed Out are very good, but Active Child is great. Album Of The Week is still riding the chillwave – and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that – especially once you discover the best the genre has to offer. Coffee?


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