Formed by a group of Harvard students in 1998, Intelligentsia were an anomaly in a music scene still dominated by Britpop. Literate, condescending and extraordinarily pompous, the band made music so arch and abstract that the few people who understood the musical and scholastic allusions were simultaneously delighted at the breadth of their learning and disgusted by their own hideous conceit. The album is a panoply of nebbish puns, arcane references and smirky contempt, with sarcastic vocals undermining purposely redundant riffs and sublime classical references accompanied by the most deliberately vacuous lyrics ever commited to acetate. Described by John Peel as:"A low point in human history, ten times worse than Talking Heads. Hideous, contrived, hate-filled and misanthropic. Truly, utterly demoralising. Do not listen to this album."
Paroxysm
1 - Atlas Chugged
2 - Public Domain Stream
3 - Henry Cavendish
4 - On The Aborigines of The Specious
5 - Richard Ellmann
6 - I Mill, Milieu?
7 - Recrementitious Bildungsroman
8 - Tits And Ass And Shit
9 - How Brechtian?
10 - Anaemic Arrivistes
11 - Empfindsamkeit
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