We define a notion of compressed local Artinian ring that does not require the ring to contain a field. Let (R, m) be a compressed local Artinian ring with odd top socle degree s, at least five, and socle(R) ∩ m s−1 = m s . We prove that the Poincaré series of all finitely generated modules over R are rational, sharing a common denominator, and that there is a Golod homomorphism from a complete intersection onto R.