Active Child has announced at last a new album titled “Mercy”, its the long-awaited follow up to his debut LP You Are All I See, here he shares the lead single “1999”. Its been such a long time but that all changes with “Mercy”, though, which will see release on Vagrant Records in June. This new song is the first taste of the project we’re getting, and it sounds like there’s some awfully nice steel guitar in there. Active Child talks about the song’s meaning:
It’s a song about growing up, a song about the fragility of love, and our instinctual, perpetual search for that someone. I can remember my little nieces and nephews laughing and playing in my studio the day i started work on what would become ‘1999.’ Their innocence and curiosity of everything inspired me that day. There’s a cycle to the song’s structure and lyrics, a repetition that is hypnotic I think, much like the cycle of growing up, its so easy to lose track of time, but always important I think to keep track of your own growth.”
The Los Angeles-based producer released his debut back in 2011, and although we had the “Rapor EP” in 2013, we’ve been hankering for something more substantial for a fair old while now. Thankfully, Active Child‘s heard our calls, and is preparing his second album for the masses.
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