The Intended
are a Detroit-based garage rock band consisting of
Tyvek
members
Kevin Boyer
,
Larry Williams
, and
Heath Moerland
, along with
Glen Morren
, who also plays with
Moerland
as part of improv collective
Odd Clouds
. Far less prolific than
the Intended
have only surfaced for a few sporadic gigs and limited cassette or 7" vinyl releases before their 2016 full-length debut,
Time Will Tell
, was released by
In the Red Records
concurrently with
's
Origin of What
. The album's ten songs were captured on a four-track by either
Chris Durham
or
Fred Thomas
during several basement recording sessions, and were later mixed by
Thomas
Derek Stanton
.
Boyer
and
Morren
both split lead vocal and songwriting duties.
aren't a million miles away from
, musically or lyrically; they play driving, distorted garage rock with paranoid, frustrated lyrics. There are some significant differences, though;
aren't quite as punk-influenced as
, and they move into vaguely psychedelic territory on a few songs. A cover of "Blue Law Sunday" by obscure '60s Detroit psych-rockers
the Spike Drivers
appears in the middle of the album, and other songs replace the wall-of-noise guitars with more jangly melodies, including the reflective title track and the rough but sugary "Don't Wait Too Long." The album's early high point is "Desperation," which repeatedly quotes
Phil Collins
' classic "In the Air Tonight" before confronting reality: "This is not a dream with a tight plot, all cooked up in somebody's head/This is the face of desperation." "Beast + the Priest" begins with a spoken intro about barcode stickers on apples before launching into a song that sounds like it was written by
Blue Oeyster Cult
's scrappy young nephew. "Fighter Pilot" is a catchy, shambling singalong about feeling alone while being forced to bomb foreign countries during a war. Like
, the music created by
is messy and loose, but the lyrics are sharp and direct, and both groups are equally powerful. ~ Paul Simpson