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The Max Heath (known also as Circadion) and Natalie Plaza duo Child Actor released their forth album in collaboration with Ian Taggart, the California-based producer known also as Young God and Televangel (also known from Blue Sky Black Death). This combination is quite striking and resulted in this combination of dream pop atmosphere and hip-hop aesthetics.
Plaza's dispersed, ethereal vocals here are combined not with a guitar-based wall of noise but with calmer but very rhythmical electronica so typical for the abstract/cloud kind of hip-hop music. But that's not all, a huge deal of the airiness comes from the multitude of vocal lines layered on each other, making tracks like Lovers Leap a truly psychedelic work of beauty. There's also more from the hip-hop genre than just the beats and heavy basses in the backgrounds; it becomes clear in Phone Doesn't Ring that involves more-spoken-work-than-rapping vocals with Plaza's angelic voice making up the backing vocals.
And most of the album sounds this way: it's an extremely ethereal take on ambitious, alternative hip-hop music. The two fairly distant music genres work so well here: the dreamy vibes soften and slow down hip-hop's intensity while its modern electronic structures give a lot of freshness to the noise pop compositions. I love when it turns towards the utterly engaging airy sonic madness like it is in Small Children, my personal favourite on the album.
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Check: Small Children
Country: California, US
Genre: hip-hop dream pop
Label: Fake Four Inc.
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