Confuse & Conquer

Confuse & Conquer
Studio album by Poison Idea
Released	April 7, 2015
Genre	Hardcore punk
Length	34:39
Label	Southern Lord Records [1]
Poison Idea chronology
Latest Will and Testament (2006) Confuse & Conquer (2015)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
Louder Than War	[3]
Punknews.org	[4]
Louder Sound	[5]

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]

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

• Gordon Scholl - Drums on "Hypnotic"
• Natalie Lucio & May May Del Castro - Back Up Vocals
• Joel Grind & Brad Boatright - Recording, Mixing, and Mastering

References

1. "Poison Idea Confuse and Conquer". Southern Lord.
2. Thomas, Fred. "Confuse and Conquer - Poison Idea". AllMusic .
3. Hart, Joshua. "Poison Idea: Confuse And Conquer - album review". Louder Than War.
4. Trauma, Tom. "Poison Idea - Confuse And Conquer (2015)". Punknews.org.
5. Lawson, Dom. "Poison Idea: Confuse And Conquer". Louder Sound .
6. "Poison Idea". Fear And Loathing Magazine.
7. Pizzola, Thomas. "Poison Idea - Confuse & Conquer". Verbicide.
8. Rowella, Chris (April 16, 2015). "Poison Idea - Confuse & Conquer". Invisible Oranges . Archived from the original on February 21, 2016. Retrieved February 8, 2023.