title: Playing Out: Songs For Children & Robots
text: # Playing Out: Songs For Children & Robots
  
  Playing Out: Songs For Children & Robots is the ninth studio album by Kathryn Williams, released on CAW Records on 9 September 2010. It is a collaboration with Anna Spencer (formerly of punk band Delicate Vomit) 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
  