Albums
Teaspoon To the Ocean
2015
Genre: Alternative
Release Date: 2015
By Jeremy Gordon
Reviewed February 4, 2015
On Jib Kidder's debut Teaspoon to the Ocean, the refracted pop of the New York artist represents a formal attempt to surface from the deep web into a small corner of the music world.
If you’ve ever stayed up to an ungodly hour searching YouTube for the weirdest available Internet—like this masked man drinking a can of malt liquor during a hurricane—you’re likely to understand the music of Sean Schuster-Craig, alias Jib Kidder, a New York-based artist whose refracted pop music might soundtrack your next dive down a digital K-hole. Click through his Bandcamp, and you see that Schuster-Craig approaches music as cosmophage, chewing up his influences—Atlanta rap, Animal Collective, AM radio—into raw material for a blank canvas dripping with the excess of these ideas. His new album, , is his debut for Domino imprint Weird World, and represents a formal attempt to surface from the deep web into a small corner of the music world.