Noid (Yves Tumor song)

"Noid"
Single by Yves Tumor
from the album Safe in the Hands of Love
Released24 July 2018 (2018-07-24)
Genre
Length3:29
Label
Songwriter(s)Yves Tumor
Yves Tumor singles chronology
"Noid"
(2018)
"Licking An Orchid"
(2018)

"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.