Love Child (Ella Riot EP)

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Love Child
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EP by
ReleasedMarch 29, 2011
Recorded2010–2011
Genre Electro-pop, funk, rock, techno
Length21:04
Label Independent
Producer Ella Riot
Ella Riot chronology
The Remixes
EP

(2010)
Love Child
(2011)
Professional ratings
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Love Child is the second studio release by Ann Arbor, Michigan-based band Ella Riot, formerly My Dear Disco. [2] Being a studio recording and final release, Love Child is the band's second definitive work. It was engineered and recorded at Mission Sound studio. [3] The band released a music video of the album's fourth track "It Could Be". The song's theme is "liberation" and according to band founder Tyler Duncan the video's concept is: "an unlikely person having the ideal response to our music." [4] An album review by Mark Deming of AllMusic characterized the music as pop, influenced by funk, techno and house, and called the band's approach original. [1] The last track "Clubbin" has bagpipes as the lead instrument, [4] with Deming calling the fusion of bagpipes and guitars "a welcome bit of inspired lunacy". [1]

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Just One Way"4:12
2."Karma"4:26
3."Replaceable"3:42
4."It Could Be"4:00
5."Clubbin"4:44

Personnel

Credits adapted from Bandcamp music store.

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