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Is there already a thread for this? Anyway, easily one of my favorites of the year. I thought for sure they would tone down a bit for this one, and three tracks into it I thought I was right. But then it just gets CRAYZEEE. The Driller is single of the year for me, and that last track with Olson and everyone yelling is fantastic.

― Bunyip (Bunyip), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

i cannot believe that the concert board, which i'm on, booked them for this fall. i just wish i could give my guest list spot away? maybe i'll figure something out.

― trees (treesessplode), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 23:15 (nineteen years ago)

That last track is a cover or No Fucker's "Noise Not Music," which someone shoule YSI immediately.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

Here's the cover.

ihttps://www.subpop.com/minis/0688-2_big.gif

― Bunyip (Bunyip), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 00:30 (nineteen years ago)

WTF.

http://www.subpop.com/minis/0688-2_big.gif

― Bunyip (Bunyip), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 00:31 (nineteen years ago)

"The Driller" reminds me a lot of "Village Oblivia" (from about 1:40 until the end). It's still nice, though. I didn't know the album leaked.

― Ivan G (Ivan), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 01:58 (nineteen years ago)

O Dilloway Where Art Thou?

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 02:00 (nineteen years ago)

you crazy kids and your techno...

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 02:05 (nineteen years ago)

wow, a noise cover. maybe they were inspired by that jazz kid that covered their "Stabbed in the Face"

― pinder (pinder), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 02:14 (nineteen years ago)

A Hair Policer is a poor, poor replacement

― Igor Adkins (Grodd), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 03:10 (nineteen years ago)

Classic Doug Yule syndrome, here, ILM. An irreplacable member of a great and highly inventive band is replaced by a very-talented-in-his-own-right dude who unfairly gets the Yoko treatment from assholes who jerk off to New Blockaders LPs. Connelly rules. Fuck you.

― Wand Milius (Roger Fidelity), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 03:37 (nineteen years ago)

Are they making grebt artistic advancements? I would like to know because this is their 1000th record overall.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 03:50 (nineteen years ago)

Actually yes.

― Bunyip (Bunyip), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 03:58 (nineteen years ago)

Dillo mixed some of this, so he hasn't really gone anywhere...

TS: 'grebt artistic advances' vs. constant refinement/adjustment of fully achieved artistic 'vision'

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 06:01 (nineteen years ago)

wow, a noise cover. maybe they were inspired by that jazz kid that covered their "Stabbed in the Face"

Hahaha! I'm friends with that dude. He's in Zs now!

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 06:21 (nineteen years ago)

Are they making grebt artistic advancements? I would like to know because this is their 1000th record overall.

If Burned Mind was chainsaw-revvin’ grindhouse gore, then Human Animal (stupid name) more bleak, cold, unsettling barrenness. I have a review forthcoming that sez "imagine Hair Police’s [i]Obedience Cuts[/i] getting a remix by the director of [i]Hostel." Nahmean?

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 06:23 (nineteen years ago)

Pretty spot on, as usual.

― Wand Milius (Roger Fidelity), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 09:15 (nineteen years ago)

"imagine Hair Police’s [i]Obedience Cuts[/i] getting a remix by the director of [i]Hostel." Nahmean?

I think so, if you mean avoid at all costs!

― blackmail (blackmail.is.my.life), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 09:51 (nineteen years ago)

What about the other 150 releases? Has anyone even heard them?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Eyes

― MRZBW (MRZBW), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah. They're all good.

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

Except for that one... oh yeah, this one.^^^^

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

Parts of this album remind me of something like Painkiller's "Execution Ground" with some of Godflesh's dub-ier moments mixed in.

Really enjoying it so far.

― vartman (novaheat), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

i've heard the 'technical difficulties' release...it's a show where they have technical difficulties. like, half of the songs are them and the crowd yelling at each other and little spurts and putters of noise as they try to fix whatever's wrong.

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

needless to say: pretty great

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

There should be a thread for fave/most apocryphal non-Sub Pop/Troubleman Wolf Eyes albums.

-The split they did with Emil Beaulieu that was was just paint thrown on an existing record.
-The day they brought a record cutter on stage with them. Cut a record of the live sound on stage. Then cut a record of that record. Then cut a record of that record. Then sold them (each was like an edition of 1!).
-The lathe-cut laserdisc!

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

This just shipped for me. Looking forward to it.

― like murderinging (modestmickey), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

it's a definite highlight, i just wish Olson would use his saxophone more

― rizzx (Rizz), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

haven't heard it yet, but this album would be twice as good if it was called HUMANIMAL

― 6335 (6335), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

I actually kind of like this one, not as scary as "The Drift" though!

― trance pants devolution (fandango), Thursday, 28 September 2006 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

blah. same old same mold, piercing smoulder-scapes. excessive, haphazardly-controlled feedback. i like the thick atmosphere of the first couple tracks. fuck noise as a repellant though. the shit aggravates tinnitus. very monochrome vocals, charred innards. will try to stomach this joint, as i dropped $15 on it. i want more howling harmonizing w/blaring feedback, like on dead hills

― held tony (held tony), Friday, 29 September 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

still compelled to put this on though. had it playing in the other room, my 15 year-old roommate was distressed by the high-pitched scree tones that develop on the surface of it. have to clarify, i like the dry spaciousness of the first couple tracks, and suggestions of where it could go. wanna get familar but am mildly annoyed by some sonic choices on their records. their more "realized" tracks like stabbed in the face and the denser, barraging tracks on this one seem too slick and impenetrable

― held tony (held tony), Friday, 29 September 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

"stabbed in the face" just seemed corny to me.

I'm not really familiar with their stuff but I like the idea of sneaking audio performance art into rock shows via a indie-major label a whole lot. No fucking way would I go to their gigs without earplugs though. Agree the tinnitus bothering frequency abuse is pretty obnoxious.

― dang man listen to you all cock of the walk! (fandango), Friday, 29 September 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

had it playing in the other room, my 15 year-old roommate was distressed by the high-pitched scree tones that develop on the surface of it. have to clarify, i like the dry spaciousness of the first couple tracks, and suggestions of where it could go.

Perhaps you should clarify "15 year-old roommate."

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 29 September 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

Can someone please explain the appeal of this band to me? I like to think of myself as someone who likes and understands "challenging" music. I get most noise stuff, experimental music, free jazz, etc. But this band just confounds me. Whenever I try to get into them the music just sounds like complete shite to me. Like horrible, horrible shite. I love Lightning Bolt, for instance, and a lot of other stuff that I don't feel like lsitneing to. I know LB really doesn't have anyhting to do with WOlf Eyes, but what is the deal with this band? They sound so much darker/angrier/goth than all the reviews and hipster namechecking make them seem. DO I just have the wrong impression?

― Shlomo Shemesh (Shlomo Shemesh), Friday, 29 September 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

"don't feel like lsitneing to" should read "don't feel like mentioning here" don't ask me how that typo happened...

― Shlomo Shemesh (Shlomo Shemesh), Friday, 29 September 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

Clearly, the emperor is wearing clothes.

― Stuh-du-du-du-du-du-du-denka (jingleberries), Friday, 29 September 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

Shite. Very well recorded, but shite nonetheless.

― Jena (JenaP), Friday, 29 September 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

if you have to ask, lady...

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 29 September 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

They sound so much darker/angrier/goth than all the reviews and hipster namechecking make them seem.

And this is a bad thing? okay the goth perhaps...

I appreciate the short running times too. I dunno, I thought this was pretty bracing when I played it the other day, I was in the mood and it kind of rocked for that. I kind of agree the "songs" are a tocuh underwhelming but it's the "very well recorded" bit that did it for me. Like ferocious sludge.

― dang man listen to you all cock of the walk! (fandango), Friday, 29 September 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

shoulda bought paris hilton album, tony. serious tho, i'll see if i can dig out that recording of a dishwasher. it surpasses wolf eyes

― 6335 (6335), Friday, 29 September 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

I was going to buy this on LP today, but decided I should give it a listen before I purchase. And it looks like I've made the right decision.

― Ivan G (Ivan), Friday, 29 September 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

yeah letting a bunch of internet nitwits influence yr purchasing, smart move

i mean, comparing noise music to a washing machine, why that's the sign of a deep and original thinker right there

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Friday, 29 September 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

Lightning Bolt don't do much for me on record tbh. The drumming feels so thin & haphazard, as if constantly straying off time... some people seem to hear this as amazing laters of breakbeat experiments(?) I'm not convinced. GREBT live of course. Doesn't seem very 'noise' to me either, but I'm just a dilettante really. I like this better. I wish this had the last track on :/ even if I probably can't afford this atm.

― dang man listen to you all cock of the walk! (fandango), Friday, 29 September 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

yeah letting a bunch of internet nitwits influence yr purchasing, smart move

I decided to not purchase this hours before reading this thread.

― Ivan G (Ivan), Friday, 29 September 2006 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

letting a bunch of internet nitwits influence yr purchasing, smart move

Y-you mean there's some other point to ILM?

― xero (xero), Friday, 29 September 2006 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

you've never heard my dishwasher, ward. it has very interesting rhythms and microtones. you'd be fascinated by it, i bet

― 6335 (6335), Friday, 29 September 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

and if wolf eyes released 'my dishwasher' on cd-r, you'd probably be championing it

― 6335 (6335), Friday, 29 September 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

It should be lathe cut into a dinner plate

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Saturday, 30 September 2006 03:35 (nineteen years ago)

it should be lathe cut into a compressed cake of detergent that you can break up and use after you digitise it

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Saturday, 30 September 2006 03:47 (nineteen years ago)

the former would be the 'dirty' version and the latter the 'clean'

― 6335 (6335), Saturday, 30 September 2006 05:01 (nineteen years ago)

4 out of 5 stars in instinct magazine, a gay lifestyle mag. which is giving matmos the roffles in the office. nice!

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

apparently, wolf eyes ringtones exist. which is teh awesome.

http://www.sweetshade.com/ringtones/freeringtones.php?name=Wolf+Eyes&song=The+Driller&OVRAW=wolf%20eyes%20ringtones&OVKEY=wolf%20eyes%20ringtone&OVMTC=standard

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

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