Noisey just helped us announce out next record, The Green Child's self-titled debut album, by premiering colossal closing statement 'Destroyer'!
The Green Child is the long distance musical
collaboration of Mikey Young and Raven Mahon, who met in 2013 when their bands,
Total Control and Grass Widow played a show in Oakland, California. They
started writing songs together in Australia in 2014 and the project has been on
a slow burn since. Their self-titled debut album is the culmination of few
years of putting ideas together internationally and periodically recording in
Mikey's home studio. Some of the lyrical content and the band's name was
inspired by Herbert Read's 1935 utopian, communist, sci-fi novel called The
Green Child.
With such a choice name, it’s no surprise that The Green Child draw
their sound from an illusory past as much as they stalk into pastures new. Broadly
retro-futuristic in scope, verdant acres of lushly evocative synthesizers and blippy
drum machines underpin most of their upbeat yet decidedly uncanny songs.
Raven’s calmly scenic and measured vocal flits like a will-o’-the-wisp throughout
the tracks, proffering a guiding hand as she walks us through the often eerie,
electronic concoctions.
‘Traveler’ opens the album all redolent,
beat-minded and labyrinthine. Twisting melody lines swirl and envelop like a
sandstorm, whilst Raven coolly projects on a “solitary man” lost to “green
oblivion”. Similarly, ‘Her Majesty II’ glistens with its playful yet plaintive
vocal and iridescent arpeggios, whilst ‘Bertha’ slows things down with tumbling
chimes and stately use of space.
The Green Child are adept at
atmosphere, their songs are refined from gently unfolding ideas that never fail
to realise and build to their potential. Tracks like ‘Walking Distance’
(featuring Al Montfort on saxophone) and ‘New Years Eve’ are exercises in
evolved composition with ideas budding off and blossoming into truly resonant
dimensions. The band’s cover of ‘Marie Elene’ (by Keith Pearson) and closing
track ‘Destroyer’ are further crowning achievements, both pieces subtly handled
with poise and ample melancholic grandeur. The Green Child fix their sights on
the heights they want to reach within their songs and much like the project
itself don’t want to rush to the finish line. When it becomes more about the
unfurling journey, why not take the time to enjoy the trip and burn slower?
‘The Green Child’ is due for release on
January 12th through Upset The Rhythm on 180g black vinyl,
accompanied by some spirited sleeve design by James Vinciguerra.
Artist: The Green Child
Title: The Green Child
Label: Upset The Rhythm
Catalogue Number: UTR102
Formats: LP / DIGITAL
Running Time: 39 mins
Release Date: Friday 12 January
Track listing:
01. Traveler
02. Her Majesty II
03. Bertha
04. New Years Eve
05. 46 Timelines
06. Walking Distance
07. Marie Elene
08. Destroyer
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