New York based multi-media artist Sean Schuster-Craig, AKA Jib Kidder is an intriguing prospect the mind bending sunshot electro of his first public track ‘Dozens’ is now followed by the simply gorgeous acid fried swoon pop of ‘Appetites.’ Which sees Schuster-Craig entwined on vocals by friend and collaborator Julia Holter underscored by a shuffling beat and twelve string Americana arpeggios. It occupies a place between the early psych pop of Animal Collective, the summery regret of Avi Buffalo and the experimentalist genre merging of the Flaming Lips. Unsettling gorgeous it has us dreaming of fading sunsets and swimming in vast oceans on summers days, which are bloody welcome thoughts at this time of year I can tell you! It’s lifted from his forthcoming album ‘Teaspoon To The Ocean,’ his debut release on Weird World due for release on January 26th, 2015.
“Born in Louisville, raised in Georgia, educated in Michigan and bouncing between California and New York ever since, he has spent the last decade exploring a variety of approaches to psychedelic collage. In his audio recordings, songs, videos, sculptures, digital paintings, chalk murals & written work he has attempted to harness the humour and ambiguous poignancy specific to the experience of dreaming.
The latest addition to Schuster-Craig’s unique and under-exposed body of work comes in the form of Teaspoon To The Ocean, his debut album for Weird World, which will be released on January 27, 2015. The eleven acid-country pop songs of Teaspoon…combine the cut-up lyrical style of avant-garde literary great Gertrude Stein with influences ranging from Lindsay Buckingham’s solo material to Meat Puppets by way of Orbison, Gary Numan and Indonesian Campursari and Vietnamese slide guitar playing.”
