Seattle's bombastic post-punk heroes are hitting the East Coast from April
2-10th in support of the new album "Boredom And Terror" (CD on Omnibus,
LP on Narnack)! A couple of shows are still coming together, we'll update the

list on the Omnibus Records site as they are confirmed. Dates, interviews
and reviews posted below (look for features in the new Resonance Magazine,

and possibly Skyscraper Magazine coming soon. A split 7" with the
COACHWHIPS / THE INTELLIGENCE in the works at Omnibus HQ, more
later...


THE INTELLIGENCE
4/2 - New York NY @ tba
4/3 - New York NY @ Narnack loft show w/ Brasilia
4/4 - New Haven CT @ BAR w/ Brazilia
4/5 - New York NY @ tba
4/6 - Detroit MI @ Lager House w/ Brasilia, Human Eye
4/7 - Chicago IL @ Subterranean w/ Brasilia, Black Hole
4/8 - Baltimore MD @ Talking Head w/ Brasilia
4/9 - Philadelphia PA @ tba
4/10 - New York NY @ Piano's w/ Brasilia, Clemente (Australia) 8pm


(omni043) THE INTELLIGENCE "Boredom And Terror" CD
- In order to sonically lay it down sideways for you, Lars Finberg, the lo-fi

dandy of West Seattle, locked his front door and pressed the record button

on his favorite eight-track machine and made ten songs that could be either

ecclesiastic alien probes, Hank Williams going electro-slash, or John Lennon

making friends with a video game. Finberg, you’ll probably want to know, is

the Battlestar Galactica-esque drummer of the A-Frames, and while the
programmed beats he’s employed herein are reminiscent of that band’s
post-punk heroics, their digital drag and slur render them feathers of an
entirely different bird. Lyrically, our post-pop sarcastic Snoop Dog-substitute

slays us best on the album’s standout track, “Telephone Wires,” rhyming
“telephone wires/connecting the liars/directly to fires/that never get tired
and
on and on and on. And while it should be said that Finberg, in his
sequestered 8-track sanctuary, teems with true talent, it simply has to be

said that the band he has collected in the wake of these recordings are
veritable toolboxes of the stuff. Members of A-Frames, Pyramids, Popular
Shapes and Thee Flying Dutchmen join Finberg in his live recitations of this

stuff, and it only gets way, way better.. So now that you’ve had some time to

floss your brain with the combo of our generation and simultaneously spin
this little Ritz of a cracker in your Discman, we’re sure you’ll agree that
terror
is indeed boring and boredom is indeed terrifying. And the Intelligence are

your new People magazine.


Bettawreckonize.com (Ohio)
Lars Finberg, a member of Northwest bands the Dipers and A Frames went
into his bedroom with an eight-track, a bass, a guitar, a drum-machine, a
delay pedal, and a children’s drum kit and emerged with the aural equivalent

of a black and white, Metropolis-meets-Johnny Five style, noisy, lo-fi rock

robot programmed to play your video games, smoke your secret stash, be
cynical, and, best of all, to rock the fuck out. Still not sure about this?
Well,
I could probably describe Finberg’s outing as avant garde, but that isn’t going

to tell you anything, and I’m not entirely certain that is the case here. Simply

put, this venture may, as the title suggests, be a series of atypical, and

frankly, bizarre outings crafted by someone who has a little time on their

hands and an appetite for dismantling rock and roll truisms only to "Dr.
Frankenstein" together his own misfit cuts. For example, "Guys" juxtaposes

the rhythmic elements of British mod rock with jarring 70s punk guitar work.

"Singing Contest" saunters through a graveyard of late-70s new-wave synth
sounds as Finberg barks a tribute to Tim Taylor (Brainiac) and Johnny Lydon

(P.I.L., The Sex Pistols). "Weekends In Jail" is a wholly different animal;
this
one has the pipes of Transmissions From The Satellite Heart-era Flaming
Lips, a Monkees-style bowl cut, the guitar playing fingers of Guided by
Voices circa Bee Thousand, and the scruffy, laissez faire dress of an early

Pavement. But that’s not all, Intelligence still maintains a Velvet
Underground-like coolness throughout the track. Fans of the band will read

this and know that I haven’t yet begun to scratch the surface, but there in

lies my affinity for the disc. I’ve listened to it multiple times and still
haven’t
taken it all in. Are you up to the challenge?
-Tim Anderl
http://www.bettawreckonize.com/album_reviews/main.html#intellterror

Delusions Of Adequacy
Are you interested in what The Intelligence’s latest release, Boredom and
Terror, sounds like? Of course you are, otherwise you wouldn’t have read
this far. Considering you’re viewing this via the glorious World Wide Web, why

don’t we all get with the times, instead of reading my observational
meanderings of the release sounding like this band fronted by that singer or

if this band meets this band in a dark ally on ludes, and HEAR first-hand
what The Intelligence is cooking up. Go to that nifty Dragnet Records site,

click on “Songs,” and check out the free MP3 offering of “Boyfriends and
Girlfriends.” Go ahead. These words aren’t going anywhere. We’ll meet back

here when you’re done. Actually, before you return, listen to it twice. I’ll

explain later. OK, did you hear what I heard? Super infectious, distorted
bass, distorted drums, and distorted guitar as well as vocals that make The

Strokes’ Julian Casablancas sound crystal clear. And then for good measure,

the whole thing’s been fed through a few more distortion effects. From what

you can make of it, the lyrics sounded humorously tongue-in-check as well
as a bit provocative? Well, whatever you thought of “Boyfriends and
Girlfriends” is probably what you’re going to think of Boredom and Terror.

After my first listen through of Boredom and Terror, I thought that the songs

were pretty good, but they all sounded like demos someone was working out
on their new Apple GarageBand music-creating software. Kind of along the
lines of former-Polvoian, Ash Bowie’s solo project Libraness. My second
listen was a totally different experience. Sure all the songs were brief, but

that was the perfect length they needed to be. And musically there is so
much to discover in each little gem. The similarity and detail to groove of

each track is probably attributed to the fact that The Intelligence is a
one-man show powered by Lars Finberg, drummer for the A-Frames (who
seems to have really influenced his sound). Not sure if Lars is English, since

the bio says he hails from Seattle, but he definitely has vocal qualities in
the
area of The Fall’s Mark E. Smith or the Bauhaus version of Peter Murphy. To

bring it up to today’s standards, think of the Gorillaz “M1A1,” that features

Blur's Damon Albarn on vocal duty, with the lo-fi production quality of the
first
Folk Implosion album. Everything is short and sweet with Boredom and
Terror: the length of the songs, the packaging, the band’s name, and even
this review. -Frank http://adequacy.net/reviews/i/intelligence.shtml

Mesh Magazine SF
Don't be fooled by the cover of this cd, which looks like it should belong on
a
really bad punk compilation, this album is a raucous adventure through lo-fi

bleeps and bloops and emits more attitude than a hundred three chord
songs. The belligerent vocals of Intelligence frontman Lars Finburg create a

bratty overture throughout the album. With 13 tracks of nihilistic beauty each

clocking in at no more than two minutes and 21 seconds, Boredom and
Terror, offers a nice escape from, well, boredom and terror.

The Stranger (Interview w/ Lars Finberg)
http://www.thestranger.com/2003-12-04/music3.html

Blank Generation
http://www.blankgeneration.com/columns/beatyourheartout/03-12-29.html

Seattle Weekly
http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0352/031224_music_aframes.php

Seattle Weekly
http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0353/031231_music_mixtapes.php

Punk Information
http://www.punk-information.com/archives_2003.htm



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