NME Reviews

Shy Child

Drop The Phone

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 Rapture, Klaxons, and !!! distilled into a two-man concoction, Shy Child’s Epworth-produced debut is HUGE. Once they’ve done their support duty for Klaxons in May, this will be a summer anthem.

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