KiliKiliVilla (2024)
I have to be honest, I completely lost track of this 7" even though I've had it for a little bit now. And it's a crime that it's taken me so long to write about something that is so great. Resonance are from Sendai City, Japan and are playing the exact kind of punk rock that I want to listen to in 2026 and every other year going forward.
Even though this 7" came out in 2024, it would take almost no effort at all to convince me that it came out on Snuffy Smile in 1995. It's a perfect slice of Japanese melodic punk that takes me back to the days of the Midishade / International Jet Set split CD. There's the sort of energetic guitar riffing, punch drums and gravelly, but tuneful, vocals. Pop is always at the forefront of the songwriting and nothing ever devolves into unnecessary scream, but at the same time things stay gruff enough to be punk rock.
If there is something that stands out as marking Resonance a little different than their peers and influences is the lead guitar work that peppers throughout the songs on this 7". It often has a slight emo-y vibe to in the way it services the rest of the song, only compounding the bands already melodic lean. But it is never devolves into self indulgent wanking or tries to become the most important thing at the expense of the rest of the song. All I can really say is that it just works and this entire 7" is excellent. It's been two years since it was released and I don't see that the band has done anything else, but boy would I love a full length from this crew.
Resonance - War in My Pocket E.P.:
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