The Intelligence - Lil' Peril LP

The Intelligence - Lil' Peril LP

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If you wish that the new Pixies album had more of the weirdo electricity of Surfer Rosa and Doolittle, are you familiar with The Intelligence? Lars Finberg has been leading the group -- sometimes being the entire group -- for nearly 20 years, infecting their fake surf with a unique lyrical worldview that is equal parts knowing, sardonic and bleak. The Intelligence has survived Finberg moving from Seattle to Los Angeles by way of Bakersfield, solo albums and sobriety, not to mention countless other sociocultural inconveniences. He's still there, hanging at the edge of the frame, breaking the third wall with a look that says, "Can you believe this shit?" Like one of their big influences (The Fall), The Intelligence are always different, always the same. Lil Peril is the 10th Intelligence long-player and Lars made it almost entirely on his own, describing it as both "No-Wave SANTANA" and "SCREAMERS recorded by JON BRION," the Brion likely to be more a reference to his new L.A. home than a sudden fondness for early Paul Thomas Anderson scores. That said, we've never had an Intelligence record that sounds quite like this before, full of synths and sax (via Mikal Cronin), but nobody else would make a song like the brilliant "My Work Here is Dumb" that is part My Bloody Valentine, part Chic and part The Doors while only sounding like The Intelligence.” - Bill Pearis