Active Child - Subtle (Featuring Mikky Ekko)

Here’s a new song by Active Child taken from a forthcoming EP called Rapor. Subtle has some big dollops of 80’s styled synths to compliment Pat Grossi’s falsetto voice and also features a vocal guest appearance from Mikky Ekko, who is no stranger to collaborations having guested on Rihanna’s Stay, on which he wrote the words and co-wrote the music with Justin Parker of Video Games fame. When we first featured Active Child back in December 2009 words like haunting and ethereal were thrown about as liberally as a slapdash decorator, but with Subtle we’re more inclined to use terms like pop pulses, dance throbs and soft stabs, if any of those phrases make any sense. It even has some synths that go whoosh. This is a good thing. You can never have too many synths that go whoosh. See if you can spot them.

Active Child - Subtle (Featuring Mikky Ekko)