For Want of - 2010 For Want of EP

Band : For Want of

Album : For Want of EP

Release Year : 2010

Genre : Screamo / Emotive

Tracklist :

01 - the orchestrated decay of self sufficiency

02 - moment in time

03 - summer of distance

04 - shattered city

I was looking forward to hearing this – new screamo from Austin, TX. Great name. Unfortunately as soon as the first twiddle came in at (literally) the 0:00 mark, I knew what I was in for: absolute twiddle overkill. Unfortunately, when a band twiddles this much in one track it calls to mind the shit stained Big Scary Monsters scene and gets an insta-thumbs down in my mind. Fuck it, I’ll hear them out. It’s only a seven. What did strike me about this first track is that the vocals are pretty cool and remind me of some of the 2000 revival junk I was getting into around the 2000 mark (think the famous three from France maybe). Unfortunately the twiddles were too hard to ignore for me to even almost think about backing it. The second track, ‘Moment In Time’, isn’t as heavy on the twiddle (its still there sadly) but it’s a tiny bit more riffy/chordy and I can get behind it a bit more although nothing in particular stood out to me. ‘Summer of Distance’ hit me off-the-bat as Damezumari worship. Decent. So, unfortunately this fell short of my expectations purely because of the twiddling. The last track has a Sed Non Satiata singing bit around the half way mark that it could do without and the rest of it, on first listen at least struck me as pretty unremarkable. 

All in all, this EP is a pretty mixed bag. Everything post-2000 seems to be in here. It’ll be interesting to see what sound this band bag as their own in the future. Here’s hoping it has less to do with track one and more to do with track three! Could be worth it. -collective-zine

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