Video: The Intelligence | Market Hotel | 9.11.2009

Swell Season @ Rumsey Playfield this time last year ( more by Kurt Christensen ) tonight in NYC * DANCE * OK Go @ The Bell House * Whiplash @ UCB Theatre * Soulico (early) @ Cake Shop * The Swell Season @ 92YTribeca * The Zeros, The Choke @ Maxwell's * Rev. Vince Anderson @ Union Pool * [...]

Honestly, I wasn't expecting all the moshing and crowd surfing. I'd hopped in a cab seconds after seeing Wild Beasts for a third time in one week and headed to Market Hotel to see Seattle's finest purveyors of bent surf garage. On record, The Intelligence are genuinely weird, like they try and make normal music and this is what comes out. It's not dissimilar to what Sic Alps or Thee Oh Sees do, but there's a sinister edge, kind of like in a David Lynch movie. Slightly uncomfortable. But live, Lars Finberg and the [...]

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