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Confuse & Conquer

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{{Infobox album

| name = Confuse & Conquer

| type = studio

| artist = Poison Idea

| cover = Confuseandconquer.jpg

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| released = April 7, 2015

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| genre = Hardcore punk

| length = 34:39

| label = Southern Lord Records

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| prev_title = Latest Will and Testament

| prev_year = 2006

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{{Music ratings

| rev1 = Allmusic

| rev1score = {{rating|4|5}}

| rev2 = Louder Than War

| rev2score = {{rating|7|10}}

| rev3 = Punknews.org

| rev3score = {{rating|4|5}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.punknews.org/review/13413/poison-idea-confuse-and-conquer |title=Poison Idea - Confuse And Conquer (2015) |first=Tom |last=Trauma |website=Punknews.org}}

| rev4 = Louder Sound

| rev4score = {{rating|4|5}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.loudersound.com/reviews/poison-idea-confuse-and-conquer-1 |title=Poison Idea: Confuse And Conquer |first=Dom |last=Lawson |website=Louder Sound}}

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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.{{Cite web|title=Poison Idea Confuse and Conquer|url=http://www.southern.com/store/confuse-and-conquer|website=Southern Lord }}{{Cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/confuse-and-conquer-mw0002824452 |title=Confuse and Conquer - Poison Idea |first=Fred |last=Thomas |website=AllMusic}} 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".{{cite web |url=http://www.fearandloathingfanzine.com/poison-idea.html |title=Poison Idea |publisher=Fear And Loathing Magazine}}

Reception

Reviews for Confuse & Conquer were largely positive. Verbicide said "Confuse & Conquer easily stands right next to some of their classic albums",{{Cite web |last=Pizzola |first=Thomas |title=Poison Idea - Confuse & Conquer |url=https://www.verbicidemagazine.com/2015/04/14/poison-idea-confuse-and-conquer-review/ |website=Verbicide}} and Invisible Oranges stated that the LP "maintains their signature sound without getting bogged down by stale tropes".{{Cite web |last=Rowella |first=Chris |date=April 16, 2015 |title=Poison Idea - Confuse & Conquer |url=https://www.invisibleoranges.com/poison-idea-confuse-and-conquer/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160221103508/https://www.invisibleoranges.com/poison-idea-confuse-and-conquer/ |archive-date=February 21, 2016 |access-date=February 8, 2023 |website=Invisible Oranges}} 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". 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".{{Cite web |url=https://louderthanwar.com/poison-idea-confuse-conquer-album-review/ |title=Poison Idea: Confuse And Conquer - album review |first=Joshua |last=Hart |website=Louder Than War}}

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

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