Kid Fourteen

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Kid Fourteen was formed in 2015 by Lebanese musician Khodor Ellaik. His practice is at the crossroads between composition, sound research, writing, and performance art. Khodor’s musical journey started in 2010 when he and friends formed the punk band Beirut Scum Society. They went on to release numerous demo tracks and one 7" split on the infamous Tian An Men 89 but disbanded in 2013. After a short stint in New York, Khodor came back to Beirut and formed the No Wave outfit Friendly Faces and played only one show only with Dirty Beaches in 2014. By 2015 Khodor had started experimenting with pop sounds, noise, electronic, and post punk to shape his own sound that quickly became Kid Fourteen. His debut album 'Dream Kids Never Sleep' was released in 2016 on the Lebanese label 'Ruptured'. Two years later after touring and inviting Xiu Xiu to play in Beirut, a collaboration with Jamie Stewart directed Khodor to the UK label Bad Paintings, where he released his second album 'Blood-thick Silence' in 2018. Khodor toured extensively between 2016 and 2019, and by 2020 he had recorded, arranged, mixed, and mastered his third album 'Love' which was released on his own label Kidsplay. It was re-released on Vinyl in 2021. He moved to Paris, France in 2022 where he released his 4th studio album 'A Brief Emotional Dragon' in June 2023. His latest instrumental album 'Heart is a Malady', released in 2024, is a sonic exploration of Arabic poetry.