Pitchfork Forkcast: Video: Shy Child: "Noise Won't Stop"

Video: Shy Child: "Noise Won't Stop"

New York electro-punk duo Shy Child opened their 2004 sophomore album, One With the Sun, with "The Noise Won't Stop", an aggressively rhythmic single that replaced the Rapture's skinny guitars with squishy synths. Pitchfork's Brandon Stosuy caught the group last year at CMJ, and they're releasing a new mix of the track as 7" single "Noise Won't Stop" May 21 on the UK's Wall of Sound, as they play out a supporting gig on Klaxons latest tour. The new version and accompanying video are, unsurprisingly, more nu-rave than 2004 dance-punk, full of bright colors and laser-beam synths but not the original's frenetic handclaps. Still, the heavy Timbaland-like beat fits better here than on several of that megaproducer's new album tracks. In the clip, behoodied singing keytarist Pete Cafarella and drummer Nate Smith perform within a pyramid suffused by swirling, multihued clouds, like Battles' "Atlas" video mirror-cube for the NME-reading retro-pacifier set. No cowbell, sadly, but no glowsticks, either.

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[single; from Noise Won't Stop; out now on Wall of Sound]