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
Tyvek,
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
Tyvek'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 or
Derek Stanton. Boyer and Morren both split lead vocal and songwriting duties.
The Intended aren't a million miles away from
Tyvek, musically or lyrically; they play driving, distorted garage rock with paranoid, frustrated lyrics. There are some significant differences, though;
the Intended aren't quite as punk-influenced as
Tyvek, 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 Öyster 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
Tyvek, the music created by
the Intended is messy and loose, but the lyrics are sharp and direct, and both groups are equally powerful. ~ Paul Simpson