SHY CHILD - Noise Won't Stop Review

Shy Child obviously aren’t afraid of irony. By entitling their third full LP Noise Won’t Stop, the Brooklyn duo have knowingly set themselves up for a fall. To pun-starved hacks it’s the musical equivalent of walking into a tracksuit-clad crew of delinquents wearing a floral dress and suggesting the bulky guy at the back’s cap is a little effeminate. Or, to put it bluntly: this record is due one monstrous kicking....full text Like The White Stripes of new rave, Shy Child are a lean, mean duo who display a love of outdated kit.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 The Pops, circa 1985, in the hands of best-forgotten numbnuts like Howard Jones. Still, aesthetics and pop history apart, the New Yorkers - who
make a shrill fluorescent noise with a seriously hard R&B bounce to it - do bring a breath of fresh air to the indie-electro party....full text The Keytar is quite possibly the worst instrument ever invented. No, wait. It is the worst instrument ever invented....full text