Jib Kidder

In a shitty review of the incomparable Dirty Projectors album "Rise Above," a richdork worker bee had but one lucid moment when he described DP as "consumed with cultural appropriation and aesthetic polyamory-- a post-pop-art idea of authenticity." This seemed dead on to me at the time and ever since I've been looking for other phenomena that might fit this bill. Here's one. I'm not sure I'm up to the task of describing or classifying the wide array of aesthetic love affairs involved in his music - but they include electronic, guitar, female gangsta rap elements and some windows xp and lion king samples. Still, the end product is far greater than the sum of its parts. Jib Kidder's forthcoming album, "All on Yall" on State's Rights Records has me as impatient as the time I found out that I was getting the ghostbuster's firehouse for christmas and then had to wait three whole fucking days. try "Windowdripper" or "Murdergong" or "the Return" on his myspace for a peek.

The tracks have been finished and waiting to be released for way too long which is why we should all harass States Rights Records into getting it out on the free market where it might take it's first nihilistic breath and overtake Kidz Bop vol. 13's number four seat on the billboard charts. I already sent an email which, and I quote, made the owner "feel weird as a human being." It was actually a lovely encounter: I believe both of us were skullied that Saturday evening when I sent my motivating hello and he replied right away with his "look bro, it's like I'm sort of trying my best." But he promptly released the fraternal twin "All on Yall: da mixtape" so I can only assume weirdness was mostly responsible.