Resilience never approaches anything as intense as the last three odd additions to Miguel Depedro's back catalogue, with the most notable exception of Kill Sound Before Sound Kills You's congenial spaced out trip "If I Had A Happy Place This Would Be It." Unexpected to his recent followers, this home studio and hotel room recorded LP is wall to wall downtempo... or at least downtempo from his usual kicking, tweaking rage. Considering the swell support Kid606 has earned with his last original full-length and its Prefuse 73-like follow-up Who Still Kill Sound, Resilience is a ballsy release for him at this time. He's yet to release an album so unified in concept and, as it has always been with Kid606 releases and the expected human response to the unfamiliar, many listeners won't dig it. I have to admit I was somewhat disappointed when I first heard it, but Resilience is no random name. I found the subtle textures of abstract ambience in each track grow on me with each successive listening. "Spanish Song" could pass as a Nightmares On Wax Mind Elevation b-side, while the Hexstatic sunshine synth of "Cascadia" sandwiches a melted old-school "Xmas Funk." But believe me, Hexstatic and NOW are two groups to which I've never before compared the sound of Kid 606. Regardless of what you think of his previous and complicated output, he's proven here that he can just as easily make sick chill as maniacal IDM or ambient glitch; and he's just as strong as anyone else going.
1. Done With The Scene
2. Spanish Song
3. Phoenix Riddim
4. Xmas Funk
5. Sugarcoated
6. I Miss You
7. Banana Peel
8. King Of Harm
9. Cascadia
10. Hold It Together
11. Short Road Down
12. Audition
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