Introvert frontman Audie Franks is open about how his band’s early material wasn’t up to scratch. For the quartet’s excellent new EP Mending Breaking, though, he was determined that they should take their time, perfect their craft, and draw on an array of genres in order to present a fresh take on punk. “Everything before this record had been super rushed, and wasn’t the best example of what we can do,” Audie explains. “The new songs are much more thought-out. Mending Breaking is a mature record, and a real melting pot of influences; everything from old school country to Thirty Seconds To Mars has inspired it in some way.” Having ditched their original “doomy rock” sound, which the band found restricting, Introvert’s new material is a more eclectic approach to things. Yet despite...