Confuse & Conquer

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Confuse & Conquer
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Studio album by
ReleasedApril 7, 2015
Genre Hardcore punk
Length34:39
Label Southern Lord Records [1]
Poison Idea chronology
Latest Will and Testament
(2006)
Confuse & Conquer
(2015)
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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]

Contents

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

  1. "Bog" (Jerry Lang, Brandon Bentley)
  2. "Me + JD" (Lang)
  3. "Psychic Wedlock" (Lang, Chris Carey)
  4. "Hypnotic" (Lang)
  5. "Trip Wire" (Lang, Eric Olsen)
  6. "I Don't Know You" (Lang)
  7. "Cold Black Afternoon" (Lang, Bentley, Olsen)
  8. "The Rhythms Of Insanity" (Lang, Nathan Richardson)
  9. "Dead Cowboy" (Lang)
  10. "Beautiful Disaster" (Lang, Carey)
  11. Reprise

Personnel

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