André, the Kid, so named because of his refusal to reject his childhood dreams and make-believe worlds, is to release his first album, The Dream, ten extraordinary tracks which take the listener on a twilight ride through the dreamworld. Exploring André, the Kid’s music through a dream is exactly the right introduction to a sound which refuses to be pigeonholed. A sometimes-surreal jaunt through dream pop, neo soul, ambient and alternative R&B might go some way to describing just one of the ten tracks but still doesn’t accommodate his sweetly naïve keyboard sounds nor the marriage of his soaring falsetto vocals and nods towards twee pop. Like musical pioneers before him, this is resolutely André’s unpredictable sound in a nutshell with no concessions to expectations nor trends.
