Playing Out: Songs For Children & Robots

Playing Out: Songs For Children & Robots is a side project by Kathryn Williams, released on CAW Records on 9 September 2010. It is a collaboration with Anna Spencer with both using their own sons as a focus group

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".

Track listing

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

Personnel

Kathryn Williams – vocals & guitar
Anna Spencer – vocals & instruments
Simon Edwards—double bass
Gayle Hutchinson—viola

Recording details

Illustrations by Sammi Solar
Engineered by Kathryn Williams
Mastered by Denis Blackham
Mixed by David Wrench