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Teenager by Steven Kidder, Song #3, "Thank You, Thank You" “Is this really his first album?” My friend is amazed. It's after midnight and we are driving through rural Vermont. Steven Kidder's song, “Thank You, Thank You,” is playing on my car stereo, the slow synth swells decorating the fog hovering over the road at eye level, its steady heartbeat pulse pulling us along; my car is gliding more smoothly than before. “Thank you, thank you, don’t know how I’d have got here with

Teenager by Steven Kidder, Song #4: “Feeling Down” “Feeling Down”, the fourth track on the album “Teenager” by Steven Kidder, has a sense of triumph in its melancholy. The initial lyrics are striking in their laying bare of the confusion surrounding indolence: “Don’t want to work // don’t want to play Don’t want to plan // not sure that I can Maybe a snack // is the thing I lack Maybe some friends // gonna help in the end” This is a song that is filled with questions an

Teenager by Steve Kidder, Song #2: "I Want X" When I first heard the final master of the song “I Want X”, I was riding on a train from Gloucester into Boston. As I watched the sun set over the sea, the grinding noise of the train tracks below me gave way to the initial clicks and clanks of the drum machine on the track. Pulsing, solemn vocals (much darker in tone and lyrical content than the previous song, “Fabulous Things”) begin to punch their way in, and then a classic N

Teenager by Steve Kidder, Song #1: "Fabulous Things" “Here is a collection Of fabulous things Curated, eclectic You’re the first one to see…” Is it shakers, crafted static sounds, both? “What is this? Sounds like Bowie, Blackstar era.” “It’s Steve.” I was in the lounge, racking up for a game of 9-ball, while something strange and beautiful unfurled from my friend’s portable speaker. Steven Kidder’s debut album, Teenager, opens with the shimmering Fabulous Things, a compellin