Dread

Wolf Eyes (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 4, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 2002
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Bulb
• ASIN: B00006GA1G
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #236,781 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Burn Your House Down

2. Desert of Glue

3. Wretched Hog

4. Half Animal, Half Insane

5. Let the Smoke Rise

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I Don't Know Why, But I Like It, August 5, 2004

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Paul H. "rmj84" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dread (Audio CD)

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.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars IfTheReviewerBelowThoughtThisWasBadHeShouldHearMerzbow, August 2, 2004

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Robert P. Beveridge "xterminal" (Lakewood, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dread (Audio CD)

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. ****

3.0 out of 5 stars Why are these guys the bees knees?, September 15, 2009

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S. Reeves (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dread (Audio CD)

Honestly it's not that I don't get noise...I've been in "avante garde" music projects over the years. I'm pretty familiar with noise in all its genres and am a fan of everyone from Mezbow to NON to Aube etc... I just honestly can't wrap my head around why these dudes are so popular. Some of the tracks are great, others are just as mediocre as your little brothers first foray into guitar feedback. They really don't cover any new territory that hasn't already been covered. It's good, just not that good. As a point of reference I think the Mezbow/P'Orridge (A Perfect Pain) split was exceptional.