Intro5pect - 2007 Realpolitik!

Band : Intro5pect

Album : Realpolitik!

Release Year : 2007

Genre : Punk / Electronic / Experimental

 

Tracklist:

01. the war at home
02. opressing you
03. crooked lies (make baby jesus cry)
04. for blood under god
05. no compromises
06. nazi white trash
07. goodbye goodnight

This 2007 EP came four years after Intro5pect’s debut full-length from A-F Records. With such a long wait between releases, it’s a shame that this EP is 12 minutes shorter than their previous endeavor. Regardless, this package has some solid tunes to be heard. Intro5pect’s reputation of mixing A-F brand punk rock with electronica and synth is by now widely known in the punk community and also widely loved. Since their first full-length, the band has developed quite a following. I had hoped for a few imitation bands to pop up by now, but I’ve yet to come across any that do it well.  

Overall, this is another solid effort from the only band that blends punk rock and electronica in a masterful way, but this isn’t the near-classic album that was their 2004 release. Here’s hoping that Intro5pect’s 2009 EP is more on par with their earlier material than their later.

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Intro5pect - 2009 Record Profits

Band : Intro5pect

Album : Record Profits

Release Year : 2009

Genre : Punk / Electronic / Experimental

 

Tracklist:

1. Work To Live
2. Fuck Your Flag
3. Sound Is The Enemy
4. Collateral
5. The System
6. Turnaround
7. Plastic World

 

The seven-song EP gets going with what is likely to be one of the catchiest non-Orgcore songs of the year, “Work to Live.” The choppy `77 guitars are layered alongside 8-bit synths, blipping and bleeping over a driving digital rhythm. “Fuck Your Flag” smacks of a poppier Anti-Flag with male and female vocals, much like “Sound Is the Enemy,” a riff-heavy choral manifesto propelled forward by a breakneck beat, save for the chunky call-and-response breakdown that takes up the middle. 

The band really hits their stride by the time “Collateral” comes around, thick with a rolling bassline and flittering percussion and made memorable with a booming chorus and sound bite collage that seems to take aim at every president since the invention of the microphone. “The System” is fairly baldfaced politically, with a chorus of “Fuck the system / Fuck the system / Fuck the system / Tear it down” but blends in some nice synth work, while “Turnaround” is the disc’s most straightforward punk number. Keyboardist Sara Zaidi takes charge of “Plastic World,” both vocally and instrumentally, as the Metroid-styled keys rise to dominance when she’s not singing about feeling constrained by the status quo -- er rather, not caring about feeling constrained by the status quo. 

Intro5pect are in fine form on Record Profits, having finally figured out how to diversify their sound while still creating a patently individual style. The seven songs of Record Profitshurl forth with dizzying ferocity and don’t let up while showcasing the seamless blend of electronic dance music and digital punk that has become Intro5pect’s calling card.

 

 

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