The Agent Intellect
About this Album
The Agent Intellect is Protomartyr's third album, released on Hardly Art in 2015. Its title comes from an obscure Aristotelian idea that philosophers have never agreed on, which Joe Casey saw as a fitting metaphor for the mind[3]. NPR called it a major step forward and a move inward, simmering, brooding and unsettling[1].
It includes Why Does It Shake?, the song in which Casey first sang about the imaginary city of Anacita, later revisited on Relatives in Descent[4].
Songs
References
- NPR First Listen: Protomartyr, The Agent Intellect (Jason Heller) — Review describing the album as simmering and unsettling, and the song as a churning, harshly textured assessment of manufactured contentment.
- The Quietus: State Of Mind, An Interview With Protomartyr — Joe Casey on the album title as a metaphor for the mind, his Detroit day jobs, and why the band exists.
- The Skinny: Protomartyr on The Agent Intellect — Casey on the Aristotelian origin of the title, faith and frustration, aging, and the album's odd source material.
- WAMC/NPR: What's the Meaning of Life? Ask Protomartyr — Casey on the imaginary city of Anacita, first sung about in this song, and on the follow-up album's themes.