Playing Out: Songs For Children & Robots

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Playing Out: Songs For Children & Robots
The Crayonettes album artwork.jpg
Studio album by
The Crayonettes
Released9 September 2010
The Crayonettes chronology
The Quickening
(2010)
Playing Out: Songs For Children & Robots
(2010)
The Pond
(2012)

Playing Out: Songs For Children & Robots is the ninth studio album by Kathryn Williams, released on CAW Records on 9 September 2010. [1] It is a collaboration with Anna Spencer (formerly of punk band Delicate Vomit) with both using their own sons as a focus group[ clarification needed ] [2]

Contents

Critical reception

The Guardian regarded the songs "sufficiently simple for a child to love but with enough depth that they don't drive parents mad". [3]

Track listing

  1. Robots In The Rain—3:25
  2. Disco Teeth—2:50
  3. Rainy Day—1:12
  4. Hopscotch—3:24
  5. Emergency—2:53
  6. Sweet On The Floor—1:53
  7. Lets Dance On The Moon—3:16
  8. Spooky Way Home—3:05
  9. How Hot Is A Toad? -- 2:16
  10. Pirates On The Bus—2:36
  11. Illegal—3:09

Personnel

Recording details

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References

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  2. "Cat On The Wall - Music and Culture Webzine". catonthewall.net. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
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