Costero

The Houston multi-instrumentalist **Matt Kidd,** who writes pastoral, deeply felt compositions as **Slow Meadow's,** 43-minute LP *'Costero'*. The 10-song effort is **Kidd's** second as **Slow Meadow,** arriving two years after the 33-year-old's debut. *'Costero'* is a spare and wistful collection of sketches for piano and string quartet, yet it's also immutably lush: One can hear in **Kidd's** soft focus motifs connections to contemporary minimalists such as *Goldmund* and *Nils Frahm* just as easily as the Romantic-era lions *Satie* and *Chopin.* The French illustrator **Jan Garet** contributed original pieces for each of Costero's ten songs, and the record was mastered by **James Plotkin**.