Search - Wolf Eyes :: Dread

I Don't Know Why, But I Like It

Paul H. | USA | 08/05/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I like Wolf Eyes. I think Dread is a great record. I completely understand though where someone might be put off by them. And that's fine as music like this either takes time to digest or will never become disgested.



That said, to call Wolf Eyes "anti-music" is an overstatement. These guys, and Black Dice, actually have form and rhythm to their music, unlike, say, Merzbow or a number of other obscure avant-garde acts (my roommate freshman year of college downloaded a record of a guy who recorded refrigerator hums and not much else).



Still, all the songs on Dread are incredibly harsh, disturbing, obnoxious, difficult, yet alluring and superb all the same. For music like this, you really have to be in the mood or have had lots of exposure to atonal noise.



When I first heard The Boredoms (Pop Tatari I believe), I did not "get" it, but eventually it clicked. Wolf Eyes is the same way. But if you never come to "get" it, I completely understand."

IfTheReviewerBelowThoughtThisWasBadHeShouldHearMerzbow

Robert P. Beveridge | Cleveland, OH | 08/02/2004

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Wolf Eyes, Dread (Bulb, 2002)



Oh, HELL yeah. The mighty Wolfies deliver four tracks of rhythmic noise, distorted vocals (distorted like Sutcliffe Jugend, not distorted like death metal), and all around crunchy goodness. Two long tracks (Desert of Glue, Wretched Hog and Half Animal, Half Insane) are bookended by two short tracks (Burn Your House Down and Let the Smoke Rise). The four songs are all so different in execution it's hard to point to one and say "this is best," but really, "Burn Your House Down" is so frenetic and noisy that everything afterwards kind of sounds like an anticlimax. (An excellent anticlimax, mind you). Are Wolf Eyes the best thing that ever came out of Michigan? It's entirely possible. ****"

A fun music sounds like a monster!

Dawsduh | tennessee | 09/20/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"In response/(to duh hataz): the difference between the negative response to wolf eyes' music and the positive is kinda just perspective ears. if anyone thinks this music is 'brutal' or 'pretentious' or any other flagerantly misused adjective in the hata canon of hate, you should listen to more 'music' and hate the musicology and assumptions patched to the ideology of your perceived avant community(or kill all mortal members of throbbing gristle and whitehouse[which you can then speculate the artistic intregity of]. & so my six year old sister thinks Sonic Youth make 'bad noise' but someday she'll hopefully hear something prettier. hopefully u will 2.



(he breaks a bottle of coca cola on a timpani and dances with his fine,muscular legs)"