There's very little that hasn't been said about hate-'em-or-love-'em Joan of Arc, and there's not much point in repeating it all. If you like Joan of Arc, go out and buy this record, if you don't, don't. If you don't know Joan of Arc, then give it a listen. The Intelligent Design is the Chicago band's contribution to the "outtakes and rarities" genre (a genre of which your reviewer wholeheartedly approves), and charts 10 years of monkeying around in a studio with guitars and Pro Tools sound effects. As such, it's a pretty good introduction to the band and its meandering approach to songwriting. Songs rarely move faster than a mosey, and often sound as though they're being thought through while they're being recorded, which is not to say they sound improvised, but rather, that songs tend to get from Point A to Point B by following a rather bending path. And that, along with some pretty dexterous lingual tricks in the lyric-writing department, is exactly what makes Joan of Arc worth listening to. No verse-chorus-verse to lull you into bored-with-it-all suicide, and whatever hooks Tim Kinsella comes up with tend to flit in and out without announcing themselves too prominently. If you like your music introspective, eccentric and intelligent, then this trawl through the history of a band that defiantly does its own thing is worth your hard-earned cash.