C or D: Wolf Eyes

i've heard all the full-lengths and a few of the cassettes. none can recapture that first glimpse/listen i had of them. i say take your chances live. I've seen them twice and fell in love... O_o

see also: VIOLENT RAMP.

I saw them open for Sonic Youth. They were absolutely the worst band I have ever heard. Their music is like the holocaust^2. It was almost like a parody of art-rock bands. The amazingly annoying lyrics, the blowing on that stupid horn, the idiot guy who jumped up and down like he was really into it, even though he didnt really play an instrument.

Wolf Eyes are a horrible, horrible band.

hmmm...

maybe the guy really was into it even though he couldn't play an instrument. isn't that sort of the theory that Sonic Youth sort of started with? I'm not saying you should like it, but at least they're eliciting a response, which is more than could be said for a lot of the pap being made right now.

gosh, those guys must really be monsters.

just ambient noise. i heard they were supposed to sound like suicide or electro punk shit

but i've heard Dread is the one to get

It actually exceeds Freddy Got Fingered.

Jason D. how was your sandwich for lunch today?

guess who you borrowed SLICER from? i'll hook you up tomorrow with the real deal.

too funny...

the self-titled and "fuck pete larsen" releases are also pretty tasty, i can't wait to hear "slicer." as for the american tapes stuff...inessential, but some of it is interesting, like the "black rat floods" and "dead mills" collections of clanky ghost factory concrete. sort of like the black dice/wolf eyes things amtapes released, actually.

i could understand why folks might not like this. expecting an oreo cookie, but getting cocoa, sugar, flour, and lard. it's like rock on it's side, with a beat.

m.

probably more people than there ever existed.

oh i'm a geek,
m.

But it makes me want to pick up more. Probably the "Dread" CD or the "Fuck Pete Larsen" LP since I've seen both of those around and mailorder is a hassle sometimes.

Can anyone tell me what exactly is on the "FPL" LP? I've heard that it's a compilation but what of? Cassette releases? Singles? Comp tracks?

there are some really great releases on am tapes (yellow eyes, the universal indians LPs, dr. gretchen's musical weightlifting program) but they can be an endurance test if you're not 'feeling it.'

and if anyone has "thrist of the worm"...i'm up for a trade.

there was also an american tapes 3" CDR called "dead hills" that seems to bear little (if any) relation to the troubleman release.

When the spring begins, and you feel fully awake for the first time in months, and you're walking around in short sleeves reaquainting yourself with leaves and grass and sunlight, then you might want to listen to some different music. Right now, though, "Dread" sounds perfect.

what label is dread on?

incidentally, anyone who uses soulseek should look for the live 11.15.01 video and audio by wolf eyes, it's fucking great. as are the two CDRs ("half dogs" aka olson mix and untitled aka dilloway mix) i've seen around.

03/19 Boise, ID
03/20 Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile
03/21 Olympia, WA @ No Exit
03/22 Portland, OR @ Nocturnal
03/23 OFF
03/24 Eugene, OR @ John Henry's Club
03/25 Sacramento, CA @ Espresso Metro
03/26 San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill
03/27 San Francisco, CA @ Hemlock
03/28 Oakland, CA @ Rockland
03/29 Los Angeles, CA @ The Smell
03/30 San Diego, CA @ The Casbah
03/31 Tucson, AZ @ Solar Culture
04/01 OFF
04/02 OFF
04/03 Kansas City, MO @ Your Face
04/04 St. Louis, MO @ LNAC
04/05 Murfreesboro, TN @ Red Rose Coffee House & Bistro
04/06 Lexington, KY @ Artsplace
04/15 Detroit, MI @ Magic Stick
04/17 Chicago, IL @ Fireside Bowl
04/18 Evanston, IL @ Nevin's Live
04/19 St. Paul, MN @ Macalester College

SEE THEM LIVE.

(although I am bummed they played 5 shows in SF in 2001, only 3 this year. :-\ )

http://sfbg.com/37/25/art_music_wolf.html

Dread roolz. Slicer is less intense but also roolz.

j0hn dwy3r was next to me talking loudly the entire show about (!!!) himself (!!!) imagine that gee whiz.

That said, Mugger rules, Dread rules, Slicer is pretty good, and they eat my fucking face live. Today, on my record shopping binge, I might pick up the split LP with Crack: We Are Rock if they still have it at Armageddon.

well, it's the most revived thread ever for a reason

anyway, anybody feel the recentish wolf eyes lp on hospital, always wrong. i didn't, but am curious abt others' reactions. way too one-dimensionally shrill and grating for me, with none of the murky, gooey, tarpit throb that used to hold down the shriek & clatter. for some reason, i'm inclined to blame the shift on dominic fernow, as it sounds like a prurient-approved version of the band. honestly tho, i haven't liked much (any?) of the post dillo stuff.

I enjoy the emphasis on Nate's vocals - I like them higher in the mix. It's sort of a different band now, I agree (not a bad thing), but when I saw them a few months ago they were as murky, deranged and fucked up as ever.

yeah, they've remained very satisfying live, though it's been a while since i last saw em. and i love the emphasis on vocals and clearly structured songs, just wish the whole thing were recorded a little differently. total inversion of my reaction to my favorite WE records, which sound amazing and inviting, regardless of how unstructured and supposedly "harsh" the music is.

Interviewing Nate Young tomorrow night - anyone got any questions for him?

I don't have any questions but tell him his recent solo albums RULE

The show itself was pretty awesome (nice 'n' subdued atmospherics w/harmonica + wah-wah wig out) and he's an exceptionally good interviewee. Swell guy as well.

One man thread revival continues. Here's my review of the show if anyone's interested - I'd never been to a gig of this kind, let alone written about one, so any advice/feedback would be really welcome:

http://crackmagazine.net//article/648/nate-young/

Sounds like a good night. Have you heard the Stare Case record?

FINAL thread revival: the one and only Experimedia have run with my interview and it's the first they've ever published so i'm rather proud. enjoy:

http://experimedia.tumblr.com/post/22254606220/nateyounginterview

Cool interview. I should've told you to ask him what that sound is that appears on most of his albums.

http://noise-park.tumblr.com/post/21811256238/john-olson

new wolf eyes

http://pitchfork.com/advance/59-no-answer/

been totally digging wolf eyes the last couple of days. they sound better than ever to me. the old stuff. sounds more CURRENT to me than it did at the turn of the century. for some reason. really appreciate the old stuff more now than i did at the time.

they are really really good.

Oh he'll yes

Always Wrong didn't do anything for me, Human Animal was the shit

New one pretty tasty at first blush.

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@pitchforkmedia wait so Wolf Eyes is the most important band of the last 20 years ? lets got to my local bar and duke this out

no let's go to MY local bar, bitch.

Nate Young via Aaron Dilloway
HA too funny! 16 years ago WE banned her from our gigs, and she finally wants to fight

i want wolf eyes vs. courtney love storytime

i thought the bump would've been for the wolf eyes rider from 15 years ago: http://swezlex.com/woofpies/jsdemands.html

Always Wrong didn't do anything for me, Human Animal was the shit

also w/ ss. been having a reappreciation sesh over the past few weeks, and the early stuff (slicer thru burned mind or thereabouts) still sounds great. especially enjoying the more ambient long-format stuff, live tracks, etc.

yeah, these guys were pretty much one of the best things going until Aaron Dilloway left. Human Animal was the last thing he worked on and it's a total decline from there imo.

Yeah new one is dope in a Slicer way at points

xxp - holy shit! that is my sometime bandmate's website! </pvmic>

anybody seen them recently? any good?

Saw them at Netil House last night...hahahahah they are SO SO SO CAMP live! I'd only ever seen Nate Young solo before and that was a really sombre, dark, slow set. This was him and John Olson wearing cut-off denim jackets and leather camps doing yr archetypal hype-macho stances for an hour. Louder than I thought was possible too. Their new guitarist dude is wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiild!

They were supported by Folkazoid (who would have been awesome if I was stoned and seventeen) and Porn (Thurston Moore and Bill Gould from Faith No More doing some kind of improv avant metal shit, was geat, Thurston spent the whole gig looking like he was about to blat every where. Ended with some crucial thrash shit) who were wicked.

Sad to not see a single ironic fist pump all night tho.

http://ajcdrift.com/admin/uploads/ajcrocketbunny_bbpp5.jpg

but seriously, that sounds like an awesome gig.

Dwight, this record by Porn is ace: http://www.discogs.com/Porn-Experiments-In-Feedback/release/509042

The Dale Crover Porn is a different Porn, isn't it?

tbh I've never been quite sure, and they are tricky to search for online! I thought they're all part of the same collective-type-thing though?

Yeah I suppose that's possible, I just always thought of the Dale Crover version first. This new line-up sounds great too.

regardless, Experiments in Feedback is great, particularly the final track which is 15min long and is a loop of a particularly nasty bit of feedback. Far out!

http://www.thefader.com/2015/10/22/wolf-eyes-i-am-a-problem-mind-in-pieces

new one's pretty cool! some straight up (relatively speaking) rock songs on this. rotted out stooges and spacemen 3 jams.

made me revisit "No Answer: Lower Floors" which didn't connect at the time. appreciating it this time around.

and yeah, last time i saw them (2 years ago?) i didn't know how to take 'em. as mentioned above, it was pretty camp. like cartoon dystopian splatter punk rockin' out. don't know how they were in the glory days, but the previous time i saw them (6 years ago?) they were pretty straight n0ize dude noodlin'.

New album's real good

Their takeover of the Third Man instagram account was awesome

http://i.imgur.com/wBIgycW.jpg

New WOLF EYES

Undertow

Mostly not Tool covers

It's like funeral doom played with broken synthesizers and brass and a guitar that just can't

https://wolf-eyes.bandcamp.com/album/no-hate

Nice!

For a noise group they really seem to want everyone to know they're not shitheads, I love it.

related to Wolf Eyes, Dilloway made a playlist of his favorite "weird" Smithsonian Folkways records, and it's really amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMKUNfG8UYdeJsZLnfcu0ZKrKgwlk1Utn

Also available on Spotify and Apple Music.

“My whole life” from their last album caught me recently, great stuff.

Saw these guys for the first time in 20 years last night…what I remember from back then was more of an extreme blown out noise sound, but this time they had more of a non-Jazz Funk Throbbing Gristle vibe but with a louder background, kind of like Second Annual Report as played by 00s freaker basement show dudes. Looks like the tour’s wrapping up in a couple nights but I thought it was a good time.

They were definitely mellower last night then any time I'd seen them in the past (I didn't have to punch my way out of a riot 'natch) but the dubbier/weird vibe has been what the last few releases have been like, at least the ones I've heard

But I thought it was great, it is always great to see them

they're on tour:

04/19 St. Paul, MN @ Macalester College

― JasonD (JasonD), Tuesday, March 18, 2003 12:06 PM (twenty-one years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Funny thing about this gig which I didn't know until last night was that this was the gig that got them signed to Sub Pop, it was with Caroliner and it was in the foyer of some admin building and it was...not great

the last time i saw them someone (maybe in the band?) pulled the fire alarm and they just kept playing lmfao