Kid 606 / Resilience

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Kid606 didn’t want to die without releasing this record. The twelve songs that comprise Resilience were recorded around the globe, from the isolated coldness of Stavenger, Norway, to the claustrophobic heat of Athens, Greece. Noticeable immediately is the undiluted rhythmic strength of the music. The sound is derived from the most primal elements of dancehall, dub, house and hip-hop but everything is tweaked just enough to avoid the formulaic complacence that plagues most instrumental electronica. Resilience will surprise many familiar with the almost schizophrenic range of Kid606’s output over the years, but rest assured, this is the Kid at his most uninhibited, creating in his natural element. Individually, each song has a unique identity and style but together they form a cohesive statement of love, depression, nostalgia, psychedelia, escapism and the contradictory nature of trying to be happy in a life without control. In his own words, “This is my favorite album because I had so much internal pressure and inspiration to write these songs, but no external pressure to make an album, worry about deadlines or fret over how they would be received. None of the songs on this record are about being naive or discovering things like my past releases, but all are about successfully transferring what I heard in my head into songs and then into an album I always wanted to make.” 

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