I’d like to start this review by making a daring case. The extraordinary thing about Kid Decker’s music is, it’s ordinary. I know this sounds absurd and you may ask yourself why I would recommend an ordinary album.

I do so, because “Your Kind” reminds me of something really important: you should never take things for granted. And the funny thing is, we usually just take the ordinary things in life for granted. So much for the philosophic part.

Craig Saunders aka Kid Decker is a singer-songwriter from Somerset in South West England. He decided to move to Germany a few years ago and made his mark by playing live a lot, co-organizing the folk festival Melodica and winning the German music contest Krach & Getöse (which means something like Noise & Bluster). His music is neither noise nor bluster, but straight folk. Sometimes uplifting, sometimes melancholic, the Lo-Fi production of “Your Kind” teases out a lovely private and homey feeling.

Listening to “Your Kind” fells like slouching in my favourite armchair. To most people it looks ordinary, because it’s obviously not a Red Dot Design awarded armchair. It has it’s sitzmarks and scuffed spots here and there, but I love it and I would desperately miss it, if it was gone.

Tags: Craig Saunders, Kid Decker, Krach&Getöse, Melodica Festival, Somerset, Your Kind