Noid (song)
"Noid" is a song by American experimental electronic music artist Yves Tumor. Written by Tumor, it was released on July 24, 2018, as the first single from Tumor's third studio album, ' 'Safe in the Hands of Love' ' on Warp Records (2018). The song is an anthemic comment on police brutality. It was produced by Yves Tumor, with Justin Raisen as co-producer and recording engineer. "Noid" samples "Grace" by Sylvia St. James. It has a "percussive, string-sample lead" and a "hook-laden chorus" with Tumor singing lyrics invoking "fear and trauma induced by police brutality" and expressing his experience of PTSD and depression. The song received favorable reviews from music critics who applauded the song and its accompanying music video calling it gritty, propulsive, jarring and captivating. Music and lyrics Noid is a pop rock song with a "driving drumbeat", upfront vocals and a verse/chorus structure. Pitchfork describes instrumentation with an "upbeat pulse" and Tumor singing "with a rasp obliquely echoing Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On". Halfway into the song, "the beat grows more complex, the bass starts falling out of key, and the strings give way to faraway shrieks and low electronic groans" transforming into "a jagged, toothy snarl".