This blank page has been open since Jeopardy started. I’m past midnight and it remains as bare as an Olympic swimmer’s body. All I can think about is waking up at a normal human time to go to an interview, going to New Found Glory and then heading home to recap Arrow. Instead of heading to bed like I should be, I’m sitting with earbuds in, drowning out this Cougar Town repeat (5th season, really?). Thanks to Louder Than Bombs’ What Resonates I’m missing out on Courtney Cox and Co. but am still missing a lot to say about their grizzly punk.
“Grizzly punk?” Well, it’s what I think of when I hear a man behind the vocals who is more than likely not a pretty boy, and who doesn’t have the nasal of a pop punk singer or the rage of a uber-punk man. So that grizzly punk was all throughout the record, in songs like “Haunted” and the musical guilt trip, “No News Is Good News.” Those give off the best impression of what to take from Louder Than Bombs if you’ve never heard of them, but if you’re looking to fall in love with What Resonates, then listen to the title track, “Banish” because it allows you to create a mental circle pit, and “Reveal Itself.” I’m going to do what all parents do but deny, play favorites and shine a little light on “Reveal Itself.” While it’s a slower track than the rest, but not too much, it was able to contain the grizzly manner of the rest of What Resonates. It felt different the rest of the record and for being an individual, I have to declare it the North Star of the record.
This page is far from blank now, a pessimist would say it’s still half empty and I would tell that negative Nancy to shove it. After getting rid of her, I’d let you know that if you’re a fan of other grizzly acts like Hot Water Music and The Draft, then you’d be really into What Resonates and the band behind it, Louder Than Bombs. If this sounds like a band and album you’d be into, then don’t forget to check out What Resonates, out April 23rd on South Division.
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