★★★★★
Some noise-rockers sound like they have simply got to the point of severely wigging out, whereas others (such as Wolf Eyes) often present blackened noise that thrashes around so viciously that it only seems to coincidentally take on rock's form. For Jack White's imprint however, the American mid- Westerners appear to be x-raying the style, or examining slides of its inner layers.
- recordcollectormag.com
2015-12-03
★★★★★
Almost surreptitiously, Wolf Eyes have become something of a rock band. Of course, the gristly industrial messiness that has long defined their career through various line-ups means there's not much that your casual rock fan would identify with on I Am A Problem: Mind In Pieces, but equally the squalling atonality that peppered albums like Burned Mind and Human Animal around the midpoint of the last decade has receded somewhat in favour of a woozy, halting rhythmic thrust that the current...
- thequietus.com
2015-11-18
★★★★★
Wolf Eyes have always had a B-movie aura. They're like the Roger Corman of underground music, churning out releases, inspiring other low-budget noise-auteurs, galvanizing scenes both locally in Michigan and globally in festivals and collaborations. Many of their blunt album titles have a schlock-horror feel: Slicer, Dread, Burned Mind, Human Animal. That feel is in the music too. At turns scary, funny, dramatic, and transfixing, Wolf Eyes' morphing sound has one constant: creepy, thick tension...
- pitchfork.com
2015-11-03
★★★★★
Finally an album title we all can relate to. You get the nerve, then you get that nerve frayed is what's afoot. Something ordered crispy and served up cold, wet, and black with a sneertooth grin. Every fray has a strand, every strand's a potential fuse, and every fuse is at the mercy of errant moisture. If one were to imagine all the positive and negative hyperbole about Wolf Eyes as two massive tendrils, this album is where they hopelessly tangle...
- www.tinymixtapes.com
2015-10-30
★★★★★
Wolf Eyes
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No Answer: Lower Floors
De Stijl
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[De Stijl; 2013]By
Matthew Phillips
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2013-04-23T00:01:00-04:00
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- www.tinymixtapes.com
2013-05-24
★★★★★
If you exclude all the handpainted CD-Rs, split 7", rare cassettes, and recordings scratched onto the hind of a taxidermied white-tailed deer in a limited edition of zero, this is Wolf Eyes' first 'proper' release since 2009's Always Wrong. It captures the group in a state of internal transition at a time when the wider noise scene is evolving, exploding, splintering, dissolving, or perhaps obliterating itself at an alarming or exhilarating pace (depending on how you look at it)...
- thequietus.com
2013-05-04
★★★★★
Dig up descriptions of Michigan trio Wolf Eyes from any time during their 16-year existence, and I doubt you'll see much use of the word "precision." But their music has always had this quality-- even if it's sometimes been covered in whirring distortion, brittle cacophony, or psychotic howls. Go back as far as "Half Animal, Half Insane", from 2002's Dread, and you can hear them picking and placing their sounds meticulously...
- pitchfork.com
2013-04-11
★★★★★
'Rationed Rot'. 'Leper War'. 'Lake Of Roaches'. Here's just a few of the delightful titles from the Michigan noisenik trio's latest that won't be covered anytime soon by Westlife. Neither will you hear them whistled by the milkman. Why? Because there are zero tunes. Some might not class this as music. For others, even labeling it as infernal racket would be far too generous...
- www.gigwise.com
2010-11-09
★★★★★
The cycle of tension and release is a well-worn musical ploy, but Michigan's Wolf Eyes have somehow managed to find new ideas in that technique's cracked façade. The band's best shows are an orgiastic symphony of hypnotic build-up and cathartic discharge. Every Wolf Eyes fan knows what to expect from the latter-- distorted, decaying beats, slashing noise from John Olson and Mike Connelly, and lung-killing rants from Nate Young-- and when to pump fists and jerk heads accordingly...
- pitchfork.com
2010-09-11
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