Saint Just

Booking Agent : Giorgio Salmoiraghi & Ricky Biondetti & Marco Portello

Since appearing on the September 2020 cover of The Wire with Mourning [A] Blkstar, Kyle Kidd’s musical journey has rapidly ascended, performing as a featured artist with both Lonnie Holley and Moor Mother at numerous high-profile events such as Le Guess Who?, NPR’s Tiny Desk concert, Lincoln Center, and the Walker Arts Center. During this time, Kyle also showcased their fine art skills in opera, theatre, and composition, joining multi-disciplinary artists Richard Kennedy and Christoph Winkler in a series of performances and residencies, as well as penning the theme for NPR’s All the Only Ones podcast on transgender young people. These appearances showcased Kyle’s range and ambition, sparking speculation about when Kyle would step forward as a leading artist.

During this parallel period, Ryan Mahan and Lee Tesche, the creative forces behind Algiers’ early critically acclaimed records, faced a challenging transition when their singer took an indefinite break from the music industry, leaving the group’s future uncertain. Rather than folding, the two persevered, continuing to develop their signature sound while also creating new projects with genre-distorting artists such as rapper Fatboi Sharif and indigenous multi-disciplinary firebrand Gregg Deal respectively. This new focus on collaboration was not without precedent, as the two world-builders had expanded their sonic community on numerous post-lockdown releases, including Algiers’ 2023 opus Shook (featuring Zack de la Rocha, billy woods, Backxwash, Nadah El-Shazly, Samuel T. Herring of Future Islands, and Jae Matthews of Boy Harsher) and their award-winning anti-colonial Italo-doom multimedia project Mondo Decay (featuring The Pop Group’s Mark Stewart, ONO, Mourning [A] Blkstar, and authors Michael Salu, Blake Butler and Sohail Daulatzai).

Then, in 2024, Kyle Kidd’s evolving career, and Ryan Mahan and Lee Tesche’s renewed search for musical transformation collided, sparked by a chance meeting between Kidd and Mahan on a cold Brooklyn night. The pair decided at that moment to cement their longtime collaborative partnership – which had included Kyle’s vocals on lead single “Dispossession” on Algiers’ album There is No Year, as well as a television performance with the band in 2020 on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Rather than continue under the weight of expectations tied to their past work, the trio saw an opportunity to break free and form a new supergroup—one built around their shared desire to push sonic boundaries and explore new creative territory. Building on material Mahan and Tesche had been preparing that pushed well beyond the constraints of their singular Algiers vision, the trio quickly developed the sonic and aesthetic framework to catapult into 2026.

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