Anti-consumerist screeds make for great punk songs, but when they’re under two minutes long, they’re even better:
“A long long time ago/they crawled out of the water to grow an elbow/and a fist so they can shop til they’re pissed/and a very short time from now when the world’s a dentyne drakkar cloud… don’t you know it’s a flash in the pan/don’t forget your hand stamp.”
Plenty more where that came from. “The Unessential Cosmic Perspective” is just the icing on the cake. The Intelligence drops their new album, Fake Surfers (In the Red Records) on May 28th. Yeah, I know it’s still a way’s away, but I had to justify the pure joy that I’m getting from my advanced copy with a blog post. Lars Finberg from The Intelligence and John Dwyer from Thee Oh Sees (now label mates) apparently have a rivalry going to see whose album can rock harder, noisier, and weirder. Currently, I’d say it’s too close to call.