Confuse & Conquer
Confuse & Conquer is the seventh studio album by the American hardcore punk band Poison Idea. It was released on CD and LP by Southern Lord on April 7, 2015.[1][2] It was the band's first full-length release since 2006's Latest Will and Testament and, as of 2022, their last studio album. A recording of the band's late guitarist, Tom "Pig Champion" Roberts, was included in the song "Hypnotic".[6]
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Released | April 7, 2015 | |||
Genre | Hardcore punk | |||
Length | 34:39 | |||
Label | Southern Lord Records[1] | |||
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Reception
Reviews for Confuse & Conquer were largely positive. Verbicide said "Confuse & Conquer easily stands right next to some of their classic albums",[7] and Invisible Oranges stated that the LP "maintains their signature sound without getting bogged down by stale tropes".[8] Fred Thomas of Allmusic claimed that the album offered "a set of tunes that feel freshly anguished and uproarious rather than aiming to re-create the energy of the band in their earlier incarnations".[2] Meanwhile, Joshua Hart at LouderThanWar.com, in what was otherwise a mostly positive review, criticized "Hypnotic" as "a boring rerecording of an older song" and labeled "Me + JD" as "slapdash Ramones-light with too-loud drums".[3]
Track listing
- "Bog" (Jerry Lang, Brandon Bentley)
- "Me + JD" (Lang)
- "Psychic Wedlock" (Lang, Chris Carey)
- "Hypnotic" (Lang)
- "Trip Wire" (Lang, Eric Olsen)
- "I Don't Know You" (Lang)
- "Cold Black Afternoon" (Lang, Bentley, Olsen)
- "The Rhythms Of Insanity" (Lang, Nathan Richardson)
- "Dead Cowboy" (Lang)
- "Beautiful Disaster" (Lang, Carey)
- Reprise
Personnel
- Gordon Scholl - Drums on "Hypnotic"
- Natalie Lucio & May May Del Castro - Back Up Vocals
- Joel Grind & Brad Boatright - Recording, Mixing, and Mastering
References
- "Poison Idea Confuse and Conquer". Southern Lord.
- Thomas, Fred. "Confuse and Conquer - Poison Idea". AllMusic.
- Hart, Joshua. "Poison Idea: Confuse And Conquer - album review". Louder Than War.
- Trauma, Tom. "Poison Idea - Confuse And Conquer (2015)". Punknews.org.
- Lawson, Dom. "Poison Idea: Confuse And Conquer". Louder Sound.
- "Poison Idea". Fear And Loathing Magazine.
- Pizzola, Thomas. "Poison Idea - Confuse & Conquer". Verbicide.
- Rowella, Chris (April 16, 2015). "Poison Idea - Confuse & Conquer". Invisible Oranges. Archived from the original on February 21, 2016. Retrieved February 8, 2023.