Resonate seem to be referred to on all their material as Resonate with >’s. What’s that all about? Are those signs there to point me towards the name? I can find it myself, thanks. Good job our bands database can’t handle them.
Anyway, I notice that these guys have been reviewed on PT twice before. Whilst I’m not privy to these other offerings, I seem to concur with some of the main points of Paul’s June 2005 review of Our Primary Motives. What Sonic Collision does well is the fact it’s varied, in both style and tempo, and it’s not predictable. However, I think the effects of crashing guitar feedback and dissonance in a Biffy Clyro meets Circa Survive sort of way becomes a little too overbearing after a while.
Considering it’s a self-produced CD, the mixing is quite good, but the bass seems to be consistently too low, except perhaps on ‘Thirty Minutes To Think’ – a track in which it is given a more prominent role anyway. Vocals are still weak, as Paul identified, with a few notes being out of tune, but the delivery sounds very good and appropriately complements the guitars, themselves inventive and sharp.
In general this is done fairly well, but a level of polish is required to get to the next stage.
www.resonateonline.co.uk
www.myspace.com/reso
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