{"id":12960,"date":"2025-05-22T10:07:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T15:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=12960"},"modified":"2025-05-22T10:07:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T15:07:04","slug":"electric-children-fantasy-land-a-sexually-charged-hyper-motivated-rock-n-roll-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=12960","title":{"rendered":"ELECTRIC CHILDREN &#8220;Fantasy Land&#8221; a sexually-charged, hyper-motivated rock \u2018n\u2019 roll affair"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"978\" src=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ELECTRIC-CHILDREN-1024x978.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12961\" style=\"width:651px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ELECTRIC-CHILDREN-1024x978.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ELECTRIC-CHILDREN-300x287.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ELECTRIC-CHILDREN-768x734.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ELECTRIC-CHILDREN.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Like a sexually-charged, hyper-motivated rock \u2018n\u2019 roll convertible, Los Angeles band the ELECTRIC CHILDREN have returned with a new album \u201cFantasy Land\u201c and the promise of more to come in the second half of 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lo-fi and shoegaze slam full-force into punk rock, Nuggets-era garage and contemporary alt-rock, as minds and voices allow themselves to become entangled with all of the wicked fervor of legs in a bed. It\u2019s an intoxicating mix of gloriously droning, male\/female, often harmonized vocals over buzzsaw riffery and infectious melodies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLooks like the crooked cops, have their guns pointed right at us,\u201d the Children croon in \u201cScene of the Crime,\u201d the lead single, a song that features the talents of Queens of the Stone Age, Kyuss, Mondo Generator, Dwarves (etc) man Nick Oliveri and is available on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The song was mixed by Paul Fig (Alice in Chains, GHOST, Slipknot), and mastered by John McBain (who has worked with Soundgarden side bands Hater and Wellwater Conspiracy). That pair, along with the Children themselves, have generated palpable and vivid electricity, served with a side of dark magic. \u201c Scene of the Crime\u201d is just the entry ramp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The album also includes appearances by Danny B Harvey (Nancy Sinatra, Johnny Ramone), John Carlucci (the Speedies), Gitane Demone (Christian Death), Zou Zou Mansou (Soraia), Jesika Von Rabbit, Poppy Jean Crawford, Leanne Bowes (Demi Lovato), Bill Bateman (Cramps, Blasters), Ginny Luke (Foo Fighters, Britney Spears), Marcie Bolen (Von Bondies), Melanie Vammen (the Pandoras, the Muffs ), and Greta Valenti &amp; Robin Davey (Well Hung Heart), as well as the aforementioned Nick Oliveri. Who knows who will pop up next?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;Fantasty Land&#8221; will arrive May 23, 2025 The release will be celebrated with a release show at the Redwood Bar in L.A. on May 24, with the Detroit Cobras and Tenement Rats.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Brett Callwood, Music Connection, LA Weekly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/infuzzwetrust\">https:\/\/linktr.ee\/infuzzwetrust<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/electricchildren_\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/electricchildren_<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/electriccchildren\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/electriccchildren<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/electricchildren.bandcamp.com\/music\">https:\/\/electricchildren.bandcamp.com\/music<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/us\/artist\/electric-children\/1538015613\">https:\/\/music.apple.com\/us\/artist\/electric-children\/1538015613<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Electric Children\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/artist\/0uIQfuqwPPupLNBqXwvdUl?si=OXYDjBe4R2yKK3SPU-3fgQ&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like a sexually-charged, hyper-motivated rock \u2018n\u2019 roll convertible, Los Angeles band the ELECTRIC CHILDREN have returned with a new album \u201cFantasy Land\u201c and the promise of more to come in the second half of 2025. Lo-fi and shoegaze slam full-force into punk rock, Nuggets-era garage and contemporary alt-rock, as minds and voices allow themselves to&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=12960\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ELECTRIC CHILDREN &#8220;Fantasy Land&#8221; a sexually-charged, hyper-motivated rock \u2018n\u2019 roll affair<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12962,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12960\/revisions\/12962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}