Resistor - Beyond (CD)
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Three tracks, forty-four minutes, one continuous arc. Beyond is Resistor’s first album since 2023’s Illuminator, and the most ambitious record the band has made: an opening salute to the music that started it all, a wordless flight in the middle, and a twenty-four minute title suite that follows one consciousness out past the edge of itself and back again.
Nostalgia opens with the windows down and the signal cranked up, thirteen minutes of open homage to the records that made these four musicians pick up instruments in the first place. Antares answers it without a single word of lyric, Rob Winslow’s bass moving under a wordless vocal line. Beyond takes the entire second half of the album, travelling from a valley of wildflowers through an instrumental passage the band calls "The Experience" and into a three-voice fugue, before waking back on a bedroom floor with the walls still standing and everything changed.
Nineteen years of standing rehearsals sit behind these three songs. Resistor is a band of friends first, workshopping every piece together long before anyone records a note, then tracking it instrument by instrument, with Steve Unruh in the room for every drum session so he and Barry Farrands could trade ideas as the takes went down. Don Schiff’s NS/Stick threads through both Nostalgia and Beyond and transforms them; his artistic stamp is all over this record. Mixed and mastered by Unruh.
Resistor is:
- Steve Unruh – Vocals, Violins, Guitars, Flute
- Fran Turner – Guitars, Vocals
- Barry Farrands – Drums, Vocals
- Don Schiff - NS/Stick (Nostalgia & Beyond)
- Rob Winslow - Bass (Antares)
Tracks:
- Nostalgia
- Antares
- Beyond
Format: CD
Artist: Resistor
Release Date: October 9, 2026