Kid Icarus

Indie / Psychedelic / Powerpop

Dunmore, PA

Billboard

Kid Icarus began in 1996 as the musical brainchild of wayward home taper, Eric Schlittler. Over the years Kid Icarus has grown to include a number of collaborators including both friends and fellow musicians. Releasing albums of home baked lo-fi psychedelia and pop manuevers that recalls the work of such fellow cosmic travellers such as Robyn Hitchcock, Robert Pollard, Brother JT and Chris Knox, to name a few. At the time of this writing, Kid Icarus has evolved into a full band sporting the talents of Ted Baird, Thad Moyer and Justin Marchgiani, with occasional detours into solo acoustic performance.

Aside from handmade cassette releases and compilation appearances, Kid Icarus has released three full length albums on Summersteps Records. The albums are Be My Echo, released in 2002, Maps Of The Saints, released in 2003, and The Metal West, released in 2005. There's also a split EP that was released in 2003 with The Green Chair on Prison Jazz Records.

Kid Icarus is currently working on a new album tenatively titled Imaginary Songs and Aluminum Hits, which will most likely be released sometime next year.