Labels: self released
Review by: Andy Malcolm
Australia continues on it’s run of quality new emo bands with this 4 songs single from Sydney’s Intentions. The band focuses on tight, grooving rhythms of a post-hardcore nature and injects them with desperate vocals to give it a darker edge. This means they end up sounding somewhere between Benton Falls or Penfold and something more noodly, like Cursive perhaps. On “Tectonic Teeth” they throw in some screamy vocals, but they are not overdone and fit in well with the music, so I think they got away with it, the scamps. Best song for me is the meandering finale “Functionalist Dream” which is the longest track on offer and gives them the most chance to appreciate what they are doing as a band. Intentions make a good job with a downbeat sound, and the handy lyric explanations only help to make me enjoy the band more, showing that the focus here is on social / political issues rather than whining about girls. Nice one.