Jib Kidder’s All On Y’all Album Review

Jib Kidder, also known as Sean Schuster-Craig, a no home town instrumental artist that dwells between New York and California. Kidder creates experimental, psychedelic collages in all his media, especially in his music by adopting his favorite samples, putting them into a blender and then turning his blank tracks into fun, beautifully distorted mixed genre music.

I will say if you consider yourself a weird kid that loves anything related to the internet, Jib Kidder and his album “All On Y’all,” may be for you to consider and check out! This album was released in the year 2008, it is quite alternative for the times.

Kidder mainly focuses on emphasizing the experiences of humor, melancholic escapism, and dreaming to relate with his rocky upbringing and his better future thanks to his song, “Windowdipper,” blowing up on YouTube.

I remember discovering this album a few weeks ago after rewatching an older YouTube video called Cache Monet, which featured the 9th song from the album, “Windowdipper.” The video was a silly video with interesting, bright looping GIF graphics with “Windowdipper” playing through the entire video. This video has raised about 64 thousand views on YouTube, bringing Jib Kidder to a small spotlight!

The song is full of samples such as “Da’ Dip,” by Freak Nasty (1996), “Still Tippin’,” by Mike Jones (2004), and “Bring the Noise,” by Public Enemy (1987). The instrumental of “Windowdipper,” sounds very web inspired with samples of Windows XP sounds in the instrumental of the track which tickles my personal fancy because I love the internet and all of its quirks. There is also a baby cooing over some funky trumpets, tying this funky electric song all together. Over time, you learn to coo along with baby with this funny, technological song.

“My favorite song on the album would probably be “Windowdipper,” because it is the first song I heard by him, and Dayah showed it to me, and we listened to it together. From there the love for the album blossomed.” Whitley Volpe, an FCC student, explained her experience with the song and album. 

Next is the song, “One for the Wildmen,” the 2nd song of the album has mixes of country, hip hop or rap, funk, and electronic vibes. The song starts off quite funky with a country lead, then slows down into a dark rap, almost like Memphis rap music production with an indistinguishable rap song chopped up in it, then back up to the original start of the song.  

“One of the Wildmen,” ranked second in my review. It’s fun, dark, then bouncy. I prefer listening to this song when studying; it keeps me awake and active when researching, and I adore all the various sounds from different types of media that I can recognize but can’t quite put my finger on. That is a special sampling talent of Jib Kidder, collaging all these sounds together to make something truly special to the music table. 

My third and final song for this review is “Notorious Queens,” track 6 of the album. I describe this song as quick, funky, one identifiable sample is the theme song from the show I used to watch with my grandfather, Dragnet 1967, an American crime drama series. The sample from the show is throughout the entire song, but about 12 seconds into the theme song, you hear four strong blows of the same trumpet, making you realize Kidder can truly bend one sound and make it different for certain parts of a song. 

Overall, I really love this experimental collage of an album. “All On Y’all” is just so fun, funky and has something for everyone, what is there not to like? There are familiar samples from many TV shows, existing music, and hardware sounds we all know too well. I rate this album a solid 5 out of 5 stars as there is a song for almost every occasion; it is a great warmup album before work or class.