Press & Reviews

• 30Music - "Yea Big + Kid Static is a hip-hop highlight from an otherwise dry year."
• Amp Camp - "a monster that can break into your ears"
• Berkeley Place - "Yea Big seems to think it’s a big deal that you pronounce his first name 'Yay' not 'Yeah'. Far as I know, Kid Static is pronounced like it looks."
• Blogcritics - "assume them as a less high profile act with a ton of potential."
• Buddha Den - "This was some of the most fun hip-hop I've heard in a long time."
• Casual Listening - "crazy beats, clever lyrics, and mischief based on wits, not warfare. The sci-fi motif adds an additional level of nerd-cool."
• Centerstage Chicago - "an irreverent but irresistible style"
• Certified Banger - "Sorry for calling y'all donkeys,"
• Certified Banger - "No buttery flows here, just a straight up slice of meat."
• Chicago Reader - "its old-school hip-hop beats and atomized drum samples give heft and momentum to a skittering, glitchy, lovingly crafted collage"
• Chicago Reader - "these guys are actually totally decent."
• Chicago Sun Times - "One of the freshest acts to emerge from the musical underground in the last few months"
• CHIRP - "Yea Big + Kid Static are the coolest, nicest guys in Chicago Hip Hop"
• Columbia Chronicle - "we got chicks out of it,"
• Cyclic Defrost - "Finally, ‘Mind Of Your Own’ offers up what was easily my favourite track here, with Yea Big pumping up the levels of paranoiac dread with some cavernous snare breaks, booming sub-bass drops and sinister robotic electronics as Static obsesses over resisting the various seething mechanisms that threaten to co-opt his intellect."
• Dane101 - "one hell of a show. "
• Detroit Riot - "Ever heard of a dude named Mitch Hedberg?"
• Don't Just Do Something, Stand There - "Not I-just-woke-up stretching. These guys made sure to hit every muscle group."
• Dusty Groove - "beats roll from classic style block rockin', to more more diverse and aventurous elements, and the rhymes are loud and sharp."
• Fake Shore Drive - "I should have taken some video footage"
• Flagpole - "My friend Chris hates this and describes this as 'what death sounds like,'"
• Focus Skateboard Magazine - "These cats were just plain Good."
• Grooveeffect - "I just hope we sound good to some people."
• Head Exploder - "filled with cultural layers and whimsy"
• I Rock Cleveland - "You got the feeling that they were genuinely happy to be performing in front of 20, and they would have had the same energy if there were only two people there."
• I Rock Cleveland - "I get the feeling these guys really do like eating samwiches."
• Illinois Entertainer - "a restless energy and penchant for pushing boundaries"
• Imageyenation - "Chicago, Illinois' Yea Big & Kid Static are on that 'Space-Rap' shit,"
• Impose - "it’s refreshing to get splashed with this much happy in less than four minutes"
• Impose Magazine - "This was one of those rare shows where the performers worked for the audience, and not the other way around."
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• KyndMusic - "Sounds that I would consider annoying I now find pleasant, beats that would send me into a grand mal seizure now have me spinning around the room in ecstasy"
• Life On Wax - "Yea Big and Static caught my attention, and it wasn’t because of the white dude’s short-shorts."
• Love Hate Fuck Live - "These two would have been superstars in the late 80’s / early 90’s."
• Mainstream Isn't So Bad - "I wouldn't trust them with operating on my pancreas, but damn they spin some hot hip hop."
• Metromix Chicago - "loving pie and how to treat a crowd right."
• Miwsig - "the Yea Big + Kid Static sound in general falls somewhere between Static in mid-air heading for the ground, and Yea Big on the ground heading for the air."
• MTV - "You simply MUST listen to their ode to hoagies"
• Mundane Sounds - "Neither the good ideas nor the bad ones (and there are plenty of both) get to stick around for long."
• Music For America - "...not having the fear of having to conform to the standards. Kid Static does that verbally, Yea Big does that musically,"
• Music OMH - "The Wind That Blows the Robot's Arms has a genuine humour, consideration and insight in its avant-garde stylings,"
• Music OMH - "Anyone looking beyond the wearisome posturing of the mainstream for a pristine hip hop feast need search no more."
• Music OMH - "The wit is subtle and the wonder is huge,"
• Music Snob - "This is a nerdcore duo who create hip-hop music that can tap into the geek in anyone."
• Orlando Weekly - "They’re garish, cool, comfortable and showcase mucho leg hair."
• Paper Thin Walls - "the imaginative, tweaked-out drumbeat created by glitch-hop producer Yea Big (Stefen Robinson) reverberates like it suffered water damage by being stored behind a leaky washing machine."
• Paper Thin Walls - "they will damn near kill themselves in the process of entertaining you."
• Paste - "an assortment of spit-fast rhymes and nasty chants."
• Pitch Perfect - "they make you stop what you’re doing and wonder, 'What the hell?'"
• Pitchfork - "capering like an interracial Junior Senior"
• Pop News - "Yea Big et Kid Static, eux, se rapprocheraient plutôt des deux dernières catégories."
• PopMatters - "I can't decide if this is complete stupidity or some new form of genius."
• PopMatters - "If [Ray] Bradbury were to make a hip hop album or needed a soundtrack to one of his stories, this album would be a top contender."
• PopMatters - "a lyrical and sonic style that is clearly allergic to pigeonholes."
• PopMatters - "dadaist lyrics about mayonnaise"
• Pulse Niagara - "they've set themselves up for an uphill battle... but their debut finds them making a whole lot of ground."
• Rap Reviews - "It is called diversity, and long live being a bit different"
• Reckless Records - "one of Chicago's best kept secrets."
• Rock Sellout - "It just might be the ultimate suburbanite fuck-you of this year"
• Tangents - "here we have a pinball machine of obtuse and thrilling sounds, caressed into context with the vision of hip hop masters and appetite of lunatics."
• Tasty - "After what must be about the third or fourth straight listen I'm beginning to get this."
• The 405 - "my mind was thoroughly and forever blown."
• The Machine - "Party (a good one with a cheap cover and people that like to dance but not in a club) hip-hop...
• Time Out Chicago - "Hip-hop duos don’t always work this well."
• Trash Menagerie - "this sh** is dope."
• Treble - "Sure, technically, Yea Big's The Wind That Blows the Robot's Arms is music, but..."
• Untyteld - "one of the most fun and furious beatmeister-rhymemaster records of the year..."
• Urb - "Yea Big perfectly commands gritty, slightly electro hip-hop beats for Kid Static to scale at a very busy yet relaxed pace."
• We Do It Right - "...formed a serendipitous bond like Barney and Fred."
• We Heart Music - "so if you enjoy that, this album should be right up your alley."
• Weekly Dig - "If the year of 2006 doesn’t shape up to be The Year of the Cellophane Beat, just forget it."
• XLR8R - "Oddball beat wizard Yea Big and animated rhymer Kid Static both call leftfield home in Chicago’s varied hip-hop scene,"