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Photo – Bryan Carr

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DEATON CHRIS
shares debut album
‘SID THE KID’
Out Now via Dirty Hit

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Photo Bryan Carr

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Acclaimed musician and visual artist Deaton Chris Anthony has shared his debut album SID THE KID, out now via Dirty Hit.

SID THE KID features major collaborations with singles ‘Good Buy My Old Life’, featuring New Zealand star BENEE, ‘iScream’ with Dirty Hit labelmate beabadoobee, alongside a three-track short film ‘REAL EYES REALIZE REAL LIES’ directed by creative collaborator Julian Klincwicz.

SID THE KID is the story of the titular character, a lightly fictionalised version of young Deaton, and his older brother Korbin growing up in Kansas (where the real-life Deaton also grew up).

“I draw inspiration from childhood. I have an older brother, Korbin. This record is dedicated to him,” says Deaton. “We would drive in the country in Kansas with the sunroof open. We’d listen to Dashboard Confessional, a lot of emo stuff, and he would scream the lyrics, looking up at the stars. That’s where SID THE KID takes place: rural Kansas. Imagine this: I was a chubby ten-year-old, and my nickname was Sid the Kid. Korbin and I lived in this little shed in the middle of this forest. This shed had our computer, T.V. and all of our music gear. We’d walk to school nearby, and we hung out at the skate park and the bowling alley.”

SID THE KID takes Deaton in a bold new direction as the synth whiz’s first-ever guitar-based music, working with a list of acclaimed artists including beabadoobee, BENEE and multi-instrumentalist Mac Demarco, who plays bass and drums on the album track ‘Friends Don’t Hurt Each Other’. Deaton collaborated on creative direction for the album with multi-disciplinary artist Julian Klincewicz (Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Louis Vuitton, Acne, Calvin Klein).

The visual language for the record is a spectrum of colour, texture and emotion that skirts the line between modern nostalgia and contemporary visual vernacular. Each video takes on and pays homage to different textures of the early 2000s childhood—VHS memories, Sunday morning cartoons, skate videos on DVD, old family Super 8 films and reality T.V.

A new track, “Go!,” also debuts today.

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More about DEATON CHRIS ANTHONY

Deaton Chris Anthony is a multi-hyphenate, period. The Los-Angeles based trickster is a musician, visual artist, and fashion designer.

2019 saw Deaton release a project, BO Y, which Vogue praised as “a playful collection of sample-heavy songs that bridge the gap between R&B and electronic pop.”

Deaton’s produced for the likes of Charli XCX (“New Shapes” with Caroline Polachek and Christine & The Queens), Clairo and Pink Pantheress. Alongside being commissioned to make looks for Billie Eilish, Deaton has collaborated with VANS, Evan Mock and a host of others across a plethora of mediums.

The dude is also a painter. On his website, among limited edition merch drops, he sells giant Blue Man group and Shaq rugs, and has made a rug collection for SSENSE.

He translates that sense of humour, aesthetic sensibility, and play into his music, which is a caustic joy box of homemade beats, emo-tinged guitars, and pyrotechnic synth parts.

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01. I Don’t Wanna Go To School
02. iScream (with beabadoobee)
03. Shed Head
04. R3al Eye$
05. Behind The Lockers With Hunter
06. I Told You I Hate This Feeling
07. Tell Me What Your Friends Say Behind My Back
08. Re4lL1ze
09. Colors My Dog
10. Go!
11. Good Buy My Old Life (with BENEE)
12. R34l L1e$
13. I Don’t Care About My Parents
14. Friends Don’t Hurt Each Other
15. I Hope My Dog Missed Me
16. DECA (Bonus)
17. ANGL (Bonus)

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