The Intima were a Pacific Northwest band who operated from 1999 to 2004, creating a hard to define, distinctive sound while sharing stages with everyone from The Rapture to The Mekons. Hailing from Olympia and Portland, the Post-Punk quartet used a “collaborative compositional approach” to songwriting.

Featuring a classically-trained violinist, custom-tuned guitars and a powerful rhythm section, the band explored Art-Punk and Agitpop. Now, their album Peril and Panic, originally released in 2002, is being reissued on October 18th, 2024. The song “The New Savage” is out now.

Peril and Panic was recorded in Olympia over eight months in 2002 and was released in 2003 on LP (Zum/Collective Jyrk) and CD (Slowdance). In 2022, in the midst of the pandemic, the group commissioned Jason Powers to remix the original tracks from the ground up, which turned into an 18-month endeavor that included some edits, significant work to improve the sound of the drums, and the uncovering of unreleased songs.

Now, a fully remixed and remastered Peril and Panic is released into the wild sounding much closer to how it was originally meant to be heard. Their themes seem more relevant than ever as a “confluence of global crises points to a fraught future long predicted.”

A sampling of their lyrics includes:

…pressure carried in the head/screws tightened deep into bone/nurturing the machine world/in the days of counting hours/freedom carried in the hand/but stifled in the mind/we’ve come to find impasses/and there is no turning back/forest into desert/air-conditioned nightmare…