Shy Child
Liquid Love

When you're constantly asked to review music by relative nobodies, sometimes listening to new albums becomes a painful task. In such cases, creative s...

Shy Child's previous album Noise Won't Stop hit on a sweet spot between the fashionable and the embarrassing, summed up in the album's surging, synth-...

New York duo Shy Child return with 4th album Liquid Love and for me at least, it’s a disappointment, especially when compared to last album Noise Won’...

If in the past Shy Child have been regarded as peripherals of the Noughties electro movement, then it’s often down to the fact that the Brooklyn-duo h...

New York duo Pete Cafarella and Nate Smith first gained attention in America's nu-rave scene, wearing orange hoodies and scoring a cult hit with jerky...

Noise Won’t Stop proclaimed the title of Shy Child’s 2007 album, a sonic assault of hyper-charged, barely controlled electro passion that broke the Br...

On this evidence, it’s not clear quite what has happened to Shy Child.When we last encountered them, on 2007’s Noise Won’t Stop they were pedaling a l...

Remember the 80s They were RUBBISH, weren’t they But somehow, within five minutes of pressing play of Shy Child’s fourth album, we’re reminiscing ab...

The Top Shop techno revival is well underway, it seems. See also Delphic and early forerunner Sam Sparro for further exhibits of the kind of catchy, c...

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 wa...