Wolf Eyes' records sound like a lot of things, but music isn't one of them. They sound like smoke detectors going off while the earth shakes and crumbles into the sea, like chainsaws falling down flights of stairs, like maggots mic'd and turned up loud while eating through roadkilled raccoons.
It is the sound of pain: keyboards mimick the cry of ambulances, vocals become into gasping electronic dry heaves and laptop noise sounds like a thousand telephones crackling with static while Gallagher beats watermelons with a sledgehammer, spraying pulp and gore all over the first 13 rows.
It is a band that's been called "unlistenable" more than just about any of its noise peers. (It makes the Boredoms and Melt Banana sound like elevator music in comparison mdash; and catchy, too.)
Just the same, if you can ride with that, Wolf Eyes can be an enlightening listen.
On headphones you will hear totally unidentifiable noise, brutality awe-inspiring in its fervor, and unpredictable sound adventuring that will show you new ways of manipulating industrial and traditional sounds into art.
Wolf Eyes' 2004 album, "Burned Mind," is an excellent portrait of unsettling sound and undoubtedly the most adventurous piece of music Sub Pop has ever put out. Wolf Eyes released "Human Animal" in September of 2006 on Sub Pop.
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