MendingBreaking

UNFD

True to form for the Novocastrian quartet, Introvert swing wide with booming bellows, crashing snares and ripping riffs in abundance on their quasi-comeback EP. Audie Franks aims straight for the soul with with his signature battered yells, his emotive poetry crashing like a tonne of bricks while he wrings his heart out into his Jazzmaster. There’s an enthralling loud-soft dynamic at play with the guitars, verses favouring cleaner and more introspective strumming while choruses see Franks go ham with lashings of overdrive and distortion. At a tight 20 minutes of gritty emo-pop as poignant as it is punchy, the only real downside to Mending

Breaking is that it isn’t twice as long.