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Dylan Hicks & Small Screens

Dylan Davis Hicks

Born: December 16, 1970

Musician and writer Dylan Hicks was born in Austin, Texas, in 1970, and has lived since 1983 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. With his six-piece group Dylan Hicks & Small Screens, he 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 inviting 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.He has also published two novels with Coffee House Press and written journalism, essays, word puzzles, and fiction for the Village Voice, the New York Times, the New England Review, Slate, the Guardian, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Paris Review Daily, Mpls.-St. Paul, and other publications, many of them now defunct.

Modern Flora

By Dylan Davis Hicks

Label: Soft Launch Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: If Spring Comes like They Say; The Head of a Dog; The Unicellular Spore; Modern Flora; All Thumbs.

Dylan Hicks & Small Screens: Modern Flora

by Neil Duggan
August 30, 2024

In years gone by, record stores would sometimes categorise their albums by genre, so there would be sections on jazz, pop and singer-songwriter, etc. Modern Flora from Dylan Hicks & Small Screens is the sort of album that could cause the record store owner a problem, as the album would comfortably fit into all those categories. ...

Airport Sparrows

By Dylan Davis Hicks

Label: Soft Launch Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Instead of This; The Weather on Your Side; I Ain't Forgotten You; Carson City; I'm Not What I Was; Happiness; Random File; Ghost Blog; The Flanks; Reduce Me to Ashes; Airport Sparrows; Don't Ask for the Moon.