Active Child - "When Your Love Is Safe"

Active Child—aka Los Angeles songwriter Pat Grossi—released his Curtis Lane EP this week and it's a dizzyingly good synth-heavy affair. Along the lines of recent releases by Wild Nothing and Elite Gymnastics, Grossi's voice is the sole acoustic comfort amongst a sea of rolling keyboard riffs and endearingly plasticy drums. If synth and vocal melodies are the paint here, then echo, reverb, and sample rate are the brushes, elaborating on and transforming the simplest of sketches into something surprisingly organic, intimate and complex.

Active Child - "When Your Love Is Safe" (from Curtis Lane EP)