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Gone is the raucous nu-rave frenzy of Drop the Phone and Pressure to Come, with their urgent yelps and scattergun rhythms. The beast, it seems, has been tamed, and it’s grown up and left the dingy punk basement for the shiny synth-pop cocktail bar above.
Some fans might mutter that Pete Cafarella and Nate Smith have gone soft, and they’ll go out and buy the latest Enter Shikari offering instead. Which would be a shame (though obviously not for Enter Shikari) because, after a few listens, they might have found themselves growing as attached to this indefinable chunk of retro wonder as they are to its older brother.
Press play and you could be forgiven for thinking you’ve mixed up your records, for the first thing you hear is Fleetwood Mac – the floating intro from Little Lies opens the title track. It’s a bold statement of intent, heralding an album where the sounds of the 70s and 80s, from Hall & Oates melodies to Motown, are honoured guests.
In the main, it works. The Beatles, a blissful disco anthem that high-fives funk, is worth the cover price alone, while the opener’s mélange of Electronic’s twinkling keyboard riffs and Groove Armada basslines is lushly offset by its ‘Mac borrowings. Take Us Apart, with its buoyant multi-layered synths, is a glorious nostalgia fest, evoking all those Giorgio Moroder-penned Brat Pack movie soundtracks (shame the lyrics do, too). Criss Cross, on the other hand, is a great three-minute pop song – but it lasts for over seven.
Liquid Love is undoubtedly impressive, well-honed and slickly produced, and it’s shot through with a glowing joie de vivre. But it’s too smoothed and tidied. We don’t need unhinged fervour and barking fury all the time, but a little contained chaos here and there – a little of their erstwhile noise – and it would be an album to fall head over heels with. --Alix Buscovic
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The answer: The 80s disco scene. After hearing the free download single "Criss Cross", I was unsure what to think of it, but after a couple of listens I couldn't help but want to get down to the funky beat, and by the time lead single "Disconnected" was released I was completely into the new sound. Shy Child does this kind of music very well. It's very catchy, if even a little camp, but with masterpiece tracks like "Liquid Love" and "The Beatles", it's hard to argue with this new style.
If you like your music with a funky beat and a catchy tune, look no further. It may not be the kind of music that the band have become known for, but this album shows that bands who aren't afraid to change their tune are the ones who come off better in the end.
Having read NMEs pretty scathing review of this album I almost ignored it completely but managed to get a copy for very cheap and I have to say thank God I ignored NME in the end. This album is FUN! It may be a little camp and it may sound a little lazy to some but I really enjoy it. Open Up The Sky is fantastic.
If you like your synthy music to be a little more tunefull than in your face then this shouldnt disappoint.
sings and plays synths and Nate Smith who provides all the beats.
Their new album 'Liquid Love' is a neat little package of sparkly
electro-pop which manages to be funky and frivolous in equal measure.
The ten tracks in this collection will certainly not set the listening world
ablaze but there is more than enough here to make us dance and smile.
Now here's a thing. I never (ever!) liked the Bee Gees but Shy Child's vocal
arrangements are more than a little redolent of the terrible-three's style.
Falsetto harmonies have always made me more than a little nervous but Mr Cafarella
managed to convince me that there might still be some mileage in the continuance
of this dubious musical tradition. (We must assume, of course, that his high voice
is naturally, rather than surgically, determined!) The formula works well.
The melodies are, in the main, charming and the beats propel the action
forever forward in a largely predictable but pleasing fashion.
In fact there is very little in this jaunty confection which might offend!
I particularly enjoyed opening (and title) track 'Liquid Love' which bounces
along happily like a naughty puppy, sniffing every tree and lamppost it finds
its nose in front of (If you like Sam Sparro you'll almost certainly like this too)
and 'The Beatles', which is (sort-of) about The Beatles but doesn't sound like
The Beatles at all. (It's not like The Bee Gees either, thank goodness!) It's got
a good tune all of its own and I may have danced to it spontaneously when
Mrs Wolf left the room to prepare supper! (Had she witnessed this fleeting
moment I would have been given THE LOOK for sure!!)
Shy Child never take us too far away from a nicely reinvented 80's ambience.
'Depth Of Feel' and 'Strange Emotion' could easily have slipped out of that
curious decade without anyone noticing their absence from the party.
Final track 'Dark Destiny' is a real curiosity with which to bring the project to a close.
The down-beat vocals sort of slip away at the end of every line as though Mr Cafarella
is reabsorbing them into his mind and body (A risky undertaking for any artist!)
It's a lovely little song actually!
It is entirely right that we should all try to keep a place in our hearts open for simple things.
'Liquid Love' deserves to be witnessed at least once in its small life before it disappears
over the vast and ephemeral horizon of sonic creation, never to be seen or heard again.
Recommended.
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