June 23, 2014

Child Actor’s “Against The Night” From Never Die July 16th

Child Actor Announce Sophomore Album 

Never Die With Lead Single And Video For

“Against The Night” Released July 16

Experimental indie pop duo Child Actor self-release their ambitious genre-blending sophomore album Never Die on July 15. A nostalgic nod to young love and loss, the official music video for lead single, “Against The Night” premiered virally yesterday and is viewable HERE.

Free download of the single HERE

“It’s a paradise. It’s very beautiful but at the same time it’s so dangerous. It’s where anyone can find joy or death at any moment. It makes love more important, but maybe scarier too.” – Child Actor’s singer, Natalie Plaza on her home country of Venezuela, a place defined by uninhibited warmth, celebration and violent socio-political unrest. The crooning vocalist could just as easily have been talking about the vibrant blend of passion, euphoria, and dread that lies at the heart of Never Die. 

An ultimate reflection of a modern “pop” record, Never Die is an album that thrives on the sublime thrill of contradiction; relentlessly confronting and celebrating the push and pull between love and death, fear and pleasure, reality and dream. As ambitious, sophisticated, and complex as it’s creators, this self-produced album from Max Heath and Natalie Plaza marries the instantly gratifying essence of pop music with electronically altered vocals, stop-start tempos and R&B-leaning experimental fringes. An intimate sentiment that could only be sparked from life partners and band mates, Child Actor offers an intensely personal form of songwriting appealing in equal parts to the body and the heart.

Taken as a whole, Never Die is an insistently rewarding and hauntingly transcendent experience. Sonically, the album is a riot of genres: synth-pop at this purest form (“Against The Night“), emotionally resonant lo-fi (“Morning“), indie-leaning chillwave (“The Memory“), plus the swirling R&B influenced “Forever” featuring textural backbeats and allusive lyricism spouting, “If ever we should leave one another I know it’s not the end, I will find you, even if it’s a long way.” Deep circulating synths and overlapping textures convey the duo’s ethereal interpretations of what “Forever” really means.

When asked how he thinks Child Actor‘s music might “change the world” Heath’s answer takes the same existential approach as his music stating, “There will be more plastic; there will be slightly less hard drive space; the music industry will become imperceptibly more splintered and a number of people will feel a peculiar kind of sensual pleasure.” – Max Heath

Never Die is available for purchase on July 15 via physical and digital download. Vinyl pressing will be available at a later date. Stay tuned for select tour dates to be announced soon.

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