The Response detonate their clean-cut sound with a gritty jolt on Where Do You Run To?
The Response have always been sculptors, careful, precise, and considered in their craft. Which is why Where Do You Run To? lands like a brick thrown through a glass window. There is force in this shift. Purpose. A willingness to get loud and let the edges fray.
They trade shimmering polish for grit-drenched guitar and a rhythm section that struts with teeth bared. The Christchurch duo lock into something primal. Bass lines that stalk through the song with the kind of low-end swagger that catches your pulse. Guitar stabs like warnings scrawled on a bathroom mirror, cryptic and urgent and meant to stick.
The track carries a Jack White-style tension both musically and visually. It has that artfully controlled chaos where riffs slice and drums feel like they are trying to punch through the surface. Where Do You Run To? feels kinetic and hooked on forward motion. It chooses menace over melancholy and punch over polish.
Yet melody remains the anchor. The hook lands clean. The chorus sounds designed to be shouted from a crowd that is halfway feral with adrenaline. It is a new flavour for The Response, and it makes sense. This side feels like it has always been there, pacing and waiting to be let loose.
This is a band stepping into a louder skin. A duo confident enough to burn the map and run with it.
