Mike Pace And The Child Actors’ Best Boy Coming January 13th

MIKE PACE AND THE CHILD ACTORS’ BEST BOY LP WILL BE OUT 1/13/15 VIA SELF-STARTER FOUNDATION, AND CMJ IS STREAMING THE WHOLE THING

CMJ’S STREAMING PREMIERE OF “BEST BOY”: http://www.cmj.com/news/album-premiere/

THIS IS THE FIRST ALBUM FROM THE OXFORD COLLAPSE FRONTMAN IN SIX YEARS, AND IS ALSO THE FIRST RELEASE ON THE NEWLY-RESURRECTED SELF-STARTER FOUNDATION.

“Throughout Best Boy, Pace covers the kind of hitting-your-30s ruminations you’d expect while keeping things fresh musically by sprinkling some sugar into his previous band’s grimier edges to bring out the sparkling melodies, often featuring much rolling keyboard tinkling, and adding in just a few brief, sprawling, moody moments to keep you guessing where this might be headed.” — CMJ

“Mike Pace is the good kind of smart. From his beginnings in the underrated, too smart for their own good, mid-2000s almost-made-its, Oxford Collapse, to his current project, Mike Pace and the Child Actors, Mike has steadily made guitar pop that’s as indebted to 80s Athens as he is to UK DIY and the Long Island hardcore he grew up on. His new songs sound peppy as hell, but are still by—and for—complete nerds. By ‘nerds,’ I mean the old kind that like science and Sparks, not the kind that threaten women and are into age-inappropriate collectables.” – Noisey

“The icepick-sharp, criminally underrated New York indie band Oxford Collapse broke up in 2009, and we’ve heard precious little from the group’s members since. But now, former Oxford Collapse frontman Mike Pace is back with a new project called the Child Actors — entirely a solo affair, despite the pluralized name. The Child Actors’ first release is a new two-song single, and both of its tracks, ‘Summer Lawns’ and ‘McKinley,’ are enormously likable ramshackle roots-indie. The former Get Him Eat Him frontman and rock critic Matt LeMay produced both tracks.” – Stereogum