Drawing us in with fierce and intricate guitar performance, Headlong Retreat open Resistance with philosophical prose and a call to action with a power pop adjacency, highlighting choral vocals and a captivating timbre that feel both charming and enlightening.
The opus has a holistic overarching message, at a time when we need it the most. The message is zeitgeist considering the state of reality with violence on the rise, and progressive laws being stripped from us all.
“It’s time to stop this madness, it’s time to write this wrong…” sing Headlong Retreat as they invite us to unite. The band confess that Resistance is “a bold statement against the dark currents swirling through today’s world.”
They also share a powerful quote from Ken “Tex” Hauser, which reads “Resistance lets us raise our voice in song to warn the oligarchs that we’re not about to surrender the American Dream to a snake oil salesman and his craven sycophants.”
As a song, we learn that the essence of Resistance was inspired by Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA, Neil Young’s Rockin’ in the Free World, and Green Day’s American Idiot, which we understand, but there is no doubt that Headlong Retreat are sharing a message of their own which also reminds us of early John Lennon.
Resistance serves the lead single from Bill Neely’s upcoming album Pith & Vinegar, set to be released next month! The album will fuse folk, rock, jazz, and Latin jazz, and showcase Neely’s trademark sardonic wit. Whilst Bill is based on the west coast of Ireland, Resistance was brought to life through a digital collaboration with longtime musical partners Bill Bly, Liz Emmert, Doug Miles, and Mark Dann, spanning locations in Woodstock, New Jersey, and Mexico.
Naturally, we have added the track to our New Music Spotlight playlist, and our TIMELESS playlist, as we continue to stream Headlong Retreat‘s debut single, One Cooked Goose.