
AndrĂ©, 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 AndrĂ©, 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 naĂ¯ve keyboard sounds nor the marriage of his soaring falsetto vocals and nods towards twee pop. Like musical pioneers before him, this is resolutely AndrĂ©’s unpredictable sound in a nutshell with no concessions to expectations nor trends.