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WOLF EYES - Human Animal
| StylusMagazine | | Since their 2004 Sub Pop debut, Burned Mind, Wolf Eyes have dropped close to twenty limited releases. Scattered across (what are regarded by some as) near redundant formats, these are time capsules from a band that love what they do. So while this might be their second LP for that label, it shouldn’t be viewed as their big sophomore release. Wolf Eyes don’t write/record/release in any sort of linear fashion; their discography can slam from style to style as they wreck their way through a hundred different musical avenues. ...full text |
| | PitchFork | 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. The more abstract sections in between are trickier. Sometimes the trio's gnarled drift stops too abruptly, other times it out-meanders its welcome. But when these scientists hit on the right formula of slow-burning anticipation, the bombast that follows has the profundity of a drug-induced epiphany.
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| | TinyMixTapes | Two years and millions of cases of Coors Light later, Wolf Eyes return to Sub Pop for another go at making a cohesive studio album. The band's new Sub Pop album, Human Animal, marks many casual fans' first exposure to Mike Connelly's contributions. In a move that prompted many to dub the group Hair Eyes or Wolf Police, the Wolf guys acquired Connelly from his Hair Police death after electronics ace Aaron Dilloway moved to Nepal with his girlfriend.
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