The Agent Intellect is a huge step both upward and inward. Like some fresh incarnation of Pere Ubu in its 70s prime, the band subverts rock while rocking out, infusing angularity with an industrialized blur of motion -NPRA testament to perseverance, with world-weary humor and introspection providing flashes of clarity -Rolling StoneRecalling the cavernous tones of the Birthday Party, Joy Division, Public Image Ltd. and other beaten-and-broken defeatists, the bands fiery approach suggests that lo...