Shy Child - 'Liquid Love'
Shy Child were new rave’s slightly odd American cousins; the Brooklyn duo’s Pete Cafarella played keytar and their tough, R&B-inflected electro was aggressively different. Their ‘Noise Won’t Stop’ single is a minor classic. The Shy...
10 Tracks You Have To Hear This Week (17/11/09)
This week's playlist features the return of Roisin Murphy, a romantic helping of "proper schmindie" from Planet Earth, and some "space-baile-funk-bounce" courtesy of Buraka Som Sistema. 1. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Higher Than...
Shy Child: Club NME, KOKO, London, Friday July 6
Remember Death From Above 1979? The two-piece ear-bleed punk-rock merchants of whom CSS told the world that they liked to listen to while they bonked? Well evidently, so do Shy Child, the New York rave-up duo whose set-up bears more than a slight...
Shy Child
Like The White Stripes of new rave, Shy Child are a lean, mean duo who display a love of outdated kit. Vocalist Pete Cafarella is the only man in pop still playing the guitar-shaped-keyboard, or ‘keytar’ – an instrument last seen on Top Of...
Shy Child
Sooner or later all those dullards who claim new rave doesn’t exist will have to double drop their nay-saying nonsense with a chunky line of humility. Indie discos have been getting their neon knickers all twisted to this glorious mash-up of...
Shy Child
Today’s special is Brooklyn electro stew. You’ll need half a teacup of synthesized squiggles, a pound of (no, 18lbs of dynamite-packed) full-on drums, a pinch of keytar, and half a pint of horn. That’s it right there. Coming across like The...
