Intac performing at Allston Pudding’s Zone 3 Summer Concert Series, August 21, 2025. Photo by Harry Gustafson

At first blush, you might mistake Somerville’s Intac as a farcical conceptual art project before you think of them as a band. Their live shows are “presentations” and feature Microsoft Powerpoint visuals and a man with a computer on his head. Their fans on Patreon are “shareholders” in an independent music corporation. While it makes for a heady extramusical stew, it’s Intac’s sharp songwriting and tasteful production choices that make the corpo cosplay and antic theatricality feel like value-adds in what can be a self-serious and dour indie rock scene.

The band, made up of at least Bill and Lucas Restivo, is prepping their fourth (!!!) album of 2025 God is Time, Time is Money, and the Money’s Long Gone, which is due out in November. Today, they’ve shared the first single “Banking on Love” with an accompanying video. 

The song started first with the title (Bill says a great many Intac songs began their lives this way) sent in a text message. Originally released in a stripped back acoustic style tracked straight to tape, the full band version ups the tempo and amperage to glorious garage rock heights. 

The lyrics are classically Intac–folksy couplets that are as funny as they are true to our late-capitalist hellscape.  The band has an anarchic sense of humor—one of their most popular songs is called “I Want to Fight Oscar Isaac”—but that’s a feature, not a bug. “We’re open to being too funny,” Bill said, “and we’re open to being too serious.”

Still, they’ve had to develop a barometer for when their clownish impulses overpower the music. “We don’t want to be a joke,” said Lucas, recalling sets where they hardly played any songs at all. “We have been doing this thing when a presentation is going maybe not as good as we hope, we unconsciously slip into ‘Loser’ by Beck,” Bill said. “Banking On Love” cheekily interpolates the chorus from Beck’s slacker hit as an ode to this tendency. 

The accompanying video for “Banking On Love” features clips from the band’s latest streak of performances–including at Allston Pudding’s Zone3 Summer Concert Series. Watch the video below, and get the song on Bandcamp! 

God is Time, Time is Money, and the Money’s Long Gone artwork by Benji.