The Intelligence is a lo-fi

Low fidelity

Low fidelity or lo-fi describes a sound recording which contains technical flaws such as distortion, hum, or background noise, or limited frequency response...

 post-punk

Post-punk

Post-punk is a rock music movement with its roots in the late 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock explosion of the mid-1970s. The genre retains its roots in the punk movement but is more introverted, complex and experimental...

 rock band from Seattle, founded by Lars Finberg, drummer of the A Frames

A Frames (band)

A Frames is a postpunk, noise rock band formed in Seattle, Washington in 1999. The trio consists of Erin Sullivan, Min Yee and Thomas Northcut. The band was called Bend Sinister from 1996 to 1999. A Frames cites Cows, Scientists, Stick Men With Ray Guns, Scratch Acid, Joy Division, and 60's garage...

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Biography

The Intelligence was formed by Lars Finberg. Finberg played since the late '90s in other bands with vocalist/guitarist Erin Sullivan, and bassist Min Yee (the Dipers, Unnatural Helpers).

A-Frames and the Intelligence started in 1999. Both acts released singles on Dragnet Records, the indie label Finberg runs with A-Frames members Erin Sullivan and Min Yee.

A-Frames

In 2000, Dragnet released the first A-Frames single, recorded by Chris Woodhouse. S-S Records (founded by Scott Soriano & Sakura Saunders) released the band's next single, Plastica, in early 2001. By that fall, the A-Frames had enough material ready for their first, self-titled album, which was co-released by Dragnet and S-S in spring 2002 and produced by Woodhouse & Soriano. They recorded their second album, A-Frames 2, that fall, and released it via S-S the following spring. Later in 2003, the band recorded initial sessions for its third full-length. Two more 7"s were to follow on S-S ("Complications" and "Police 1000") and Royal ("Crutches"). Two years after AF2, the A-Frames moved to Sub Pop

Sub Pop

Sub Pop is a record label founded in 1986 by Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman in Seattle, Washington. Sub Pop achieved fame in the late 1980s for first signing Nirvana, Soundgarden, Mudhoney and many other bands from the Seattle music scene...

, which released Black Forest (recorded with Woodhouse & Soriano) in early 2005.

The Intelligence

The Intelligence's first release was a 7" EP on Dragnet Records. This was followed by the "Test" 45 on S-S. Finberg recorded songs at home and with other musicians, released on their debut album Boredom And Terror, released as vinyl with an extra CD (tracks of which were released on vinyl by Polly Maggoo in 2006). After their debut, The Intelligence got signed to In the Red Records

In the Red Records

In the Red Records is an independent record label in Los Angeles, CA formed in 1991 by Larry Hardy. It is known for hosting garage punk related bands on its label....

. On In the Red their second album was released, Icky Baby'.' A special limited 600 copy 45 rpm 12" was released in 2006 on the in the Red website.

The band opened two shows for The Fall at CMJ. The Intelligence first toured in Europe in 2006.

Country Teasers

Country Teasers

Country Teasers is a Scottish art punk band formed in 1993.Early Country Teasers albums were characterised by illiterate, scathingly satirical lyrics and discordant, repetitive sound – like William S...

 bassist Kaanan Tupper joined the band supporting the 2007 LP, Deuteronomy.

The current (as of 2009) line-up of the Intelligence consists of Finberg and his girlfriend, Susanna Welbourne (co-founder of the burlesque group Atomic Bombshell), and former Eat Skull drummer, Beren Ekine-Huett.

November 23, 2009 it was announced on the band's myspace page that The Intelligence had completed recording their seventh album. Recorded with Karate Party/FM Knives guitarist, who had previously recorded the A-Frames single Plastica, Chris Woodhouse, it is to be titled "Males". It was simultaneously announced that Woodhouse had joined The Intelligence as a second guitarist.

Members

• Lars Finberg - vocals and guitar, drums, keyboards, drum machine
• Susanna Welbourne - keyboards
• Beren Ekine-Huett - drums
• Chris Woodhouse - guitar

Former members

• Calvin Lee Reader - guitar (Popular Shapes, Private Beach)
• Nicholas Brawley - bass guitar (Popular Shapes, Roommates)
• Matthew Ford - drums (Factums, Love Tan-formerly Pyramids, Yves/Son/Ace, Evening Meetings, Dream Salon)
• Kurt Prutsman - guitar (The Professional Man)
• Shannon McConnell - bass (The Fall-Outs, Pulses)
• Kaanan Tupper - drums (Country Teasers
  Country Teasers
  Country Teasers is a Scottish art punk band formed in 1993.Early Country Teasers albums were characterised by illiterate, scathingly satirical lyrics and discordant, repetitive sound – like William S...
  
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• Dean Whitmore - drums (Unnatural Helpers, Idle Times)
• Dave Ramm - drums (Pulses, Scraps)

Singles

• Test/Bird Call 7" (S-S Records, 2004)
• I'm Your Taxi/No Nurses/If I Had A Hammer 7" (Holy Cobra Society, 2006)
• Message Of Love/Leopard Skin Pill Box Hat 7" (Disordered Records/Lo-Fi Records, 2007)
• Debt & ESP/Chateau Bandit 7" (Plastic Idol Records, 2008)
• Fido, Your Leash Is Too Long/Shitty World (Plastic Idol Records, 2008)
• What Wine Goes With Eggs?/Sixteen & Seventeen (April 77 Records, 2008)
• Reading and Writing About Partying/Like Like Like Like Like Like Like 7" (Raw Deluxe Records, 2009)

Splits

• split 7" with Popular Shapes (Dirtnap Records, 2003)
• split 12" EP with The Ohsees (MT. ST. MNT., 2008)
• split 7" with [(Coach Whips)] (Omnibus Records)
• split 7" with Crash Normal (Compost Modern Art, 2009)
• split 7" with Unnatural Helpers (Dirty Knobby, 2009)

Albums

• Boredom and Terror CD/ LP + Bonus CD (Narnack Records, 2004) (bonus CD later re-issued by Polly Maggoo as "Let's Toil")
• Icky Baby CD/LP (In The Red, 2005)
• Let's Toil LP (Polly Maggoo Records, 2006) (re-issues Boredom and Terror Bonus CD and adds one track)
• Deuteronomy CD/LP (In The Red, 2007)
• Fake Surfers
  Fake Surfers
  Fake Surfers is an album by Seattle lo-fi punk band the Intelligence, released on In the Red Records in 2009.-Track listing:# ""South Bay Surfers" – 3:22# "Moody Tower" – 2:12# "Debt & E.S.P." – 2:23# "Saint Bartolomeu" – 3:22...
  
  CD/LP (In The Red, 2009)
• Crepuscule with Pacman CD/LP (Born Bad Records, 2009)
• Males CD/LP (In The Red, 2010)

Compilations appearances

• "The Beat Goes On" on The Necessary Effect, Screamers Songs Interpreted (Extravertigo Recordings/Xeroid Records, 2003)
• "The Universe" on Dirtnap Across The Northwest, (Dirtnap Records, 2003)
• "Spies Like Us" on Babyhead LP, (S-S Records, 2004)
• "Tropical Signal" on Static Disaster The U.K. In The Red Records Sampler CD, (In The Red, 2005)
• "Secret Signals" on Subbacultcha! LP, (Gonzo Circus, Subbacultcha!, 2008)
• "Partman Parthorse" on The Funhouse Comp Thing II CD (My Fat Ass Productions, 2008)
• "Conference Call" on Puget Power 5 (Regal Select, 2009)
• "The Beetles" on The World's Lousy With Ideas Volume 8 (Almost Ready Records, 2009)

External links

• The Intelligence on myspace
• http://www.intheredrecords.com/pages/intelligence.html, label website
• http://music.download.com/theintelligence/3600-8592_32-100342941.html, mp3 download