This is very necessary: In the Red Records is doing a vinyl reissue of Boredom and Terror, the 2004 debut album by 2011 Stranger Genius Award winners the Intelligence. It will be remastered and come in a gatefold double-LP version that will include Let's Toil, a bonus CD that accompanied the long-out-of-print Narnack Records reissue. Boredom and Terror hooks you right out of the gate with concise, catchy, caustic garage-rock songs that radiate the trenchant, suave dourness of the Fall and Swell Maps. The Intelligence's garage rock bypasses Nuggets bands' teenage lust and frustration for a more sardonic, self-deprecating worldview, courtesy of leader and sole constant member Lars Finberg. In a much better world, these weirdly hummable tunes would be sung by millions as they traveled to their dead-end jobs. Finberg says this reissue has "better bass and less hiss. When In the Red sent me the mixes to check, I was struck by how well it holds up and [am] happy that it sounds like the 'modern' music I like now, ONLY BETTER!...
