Premiere: Resin, ‘Fidget’ (full EP)

Kevin Bronson on August 24th, 2017

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Prague-born, L.A.-based Niko Antonucci, aka Resin, agonized for years over what direction her music would take. “I was too afraid to share my music since I felt it was lacking depth and uniform sound,” she says. “I spent months and months just writing new songs on the go, while at work, while watching TV, while falling asleep and still, I didn’t know where I was. Also because it’s been about four or five years since I have exposed myself to an audience, to direct criticism that I take so hard, I was terrified.”

This week brings the arrival of her aptly titled EP, “Fidget,” an icy, foreboding five-pack of electronic music that ranges from slow-mo industrial to throbbing trance behind the singer’s pleading rasp. The EP’s closers, “Cartwright” and “Hoarse,” deliver the biggest cathartic moments, all sweat and steel as they document a period in Resin’s life when she was “going through a rough time, struggling mentally,” she says. Like the music of artists such as Chelsea Wolfe, maybe “Fidget” can be an immersive soundtrack for others, too.

||| Stream: “Fidget” in its entirety