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Dylan Hicks

I'm a songwriter, pianist, and novelist from Minneapolis. My principal group is Dylan Hicks & Small Screens.

About Me

Musician and writer Dylan Hicks was born in Austin, Texas, in 1970, and has lived since 1983 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His six-piece group Dylan Hicks & Small Screens plays exploratory pop with literary ambitions and far-flung musical influences including jazz, R&B, freely improvised music, and various song traditions. The group’s forthcoming album, Modern Flora, is centered on multi-part songs arranged for nonet. Other recent recordings include Accidental Birds, a largely electronic album recorded during the height of the pandemic, and Munson-Hicks Party Supplies, a collection of Hicks’s songs mostly sung by John Munson. Hicks is also the author of two novels, Amateurs and Boarded Windows, and has written journalism, criticism, essays, and word puzzles for the New York Times, the Village Voice, Slate, the New England Review, the Paris Review Daily, and many other publications.