Shygirl  - Club Shy Room 2

Across this sequel EP to 2024’s ‘Club Shy’, Shygirl collects cutting room floor tracks from sessions recorded in 2020 to revisit the industrial, experimental R&B of her early days all while elaborating on ‘Club Shy’’s “unrelenting, rule-breaking electronica”. Reanimated by a handful of her contemporaries - Saweetie, PinkPantheress and Jorja Smith, to name a few - these deep cuts brim with the London alt-pop pioneer’s expected off-piste, cold-sweat vision for London’s future clubbing. Screeches and sirens amalgamate into typical Shygirl horror trap on ‘Immaculate (ft. Saweetie)’ where queasy, extraterrestrial grime carries her nympho-android bars across ‘Flex (ft. BAMBII)’. Elsewhere, she pushes the ‘Club Shy’ experiment: opener ‘Je m’appelle’, conjures the buzzy electroclash keys of Peaches’ ‘Shake Yer Dix’, a punk-y twist on the typical ‘Club Shy’ sound, while ‘Wifey Riddim (ft. Jorja Smith)’ is hyperpop-tinged UK speed garage, a candy-floss hued utopia. “In the name of Shy we trust,” she commands on submissive noughties-sci-fi Eurotrash air-puncher ‘F*Me’, and that we do: this clubby alt-pop buffer - to satiate the wait for a second record - is as intoxicating as its predecessor.