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Languid, yearning and otherworldly; the songs of RESD could soundtrack the ennui that comes after a relationship is over, the rapid acceleration of a barometer as a summer storm sweeps in over a bay or the silence before the first beams of light hit the horizon at dawn. Created over a period of time in which he relinquished playing in bands in Sydney as the live scene started dying a slow and painful death, Sydney based producer and songwriter Paul Carpenter set to work in a home studio programming beats and textures on an iPad. RESD evokes the icy, baroque sounds of Radiohead circa Kid A, it even serves up a hint of the electronic dub palette and croon of James Blake. Others might find fleeting touches of the widescreen sonic brush of Icehouse and Four Tet. Formed from initial acoustic demos laid down over home sampled beats, synths give way to a metronomic backbone, haunting vocals and ethereal guitarscapes. ‘The Right Thing’ explores shimmering tropes of memory and loss in a