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Wolf Eyes - Undertow (Lower Floor Music, March 24, 2017)
Another ghostly release from Detroit's Wolf Eyes on Lower Floor Music last year. A 12" flash in the style of vocalist Nate Young and saxophonist John Olson (with guitarist James Baljo completing the lineup). Traditionally a noisy group, here they engage in an experimental work that combines drone and electronic components with noise obsessions, straddling between avant-jazz attempts in the vein of Mats Gustafsson and a Suicide attitude. The title track is a kind of underground recital almost inspired by Jodorowsky, alongside "Laughing Tides," "Texas," and "Empty Island," creating avant-jazz happenings in a cyberpunk context both visionary and structural, a melting-pot of transcontinental sounds. "Thirteen," clearly the highlight of the release (because it lasts indeed more than thirteen minutes, almost fourteen), takes up that underground style, as in literally underground, of the first track, but amplifies the swirling of ghosts, with the evocative role of the saxophone echoing through the tunnels of an abandoned subway, while at the corner a gaunt version of John Lee Hooker strums a dissonant arpeggio and mumbles a hypnotic blues born of paranoid deviations. In essence, I really enjoyed it and highly recommend it; it has clearly made me want to dig back into their massive series of releases: a mission not easy to accomplish. One day.
3-4 stars
#wolfeyes #undertow #experimental #minimal
Undertow | Wolf Eyes
Wolf Eyes - Undertow (Lower Floor Music, March 24, 2017)
Another ghostly release from Detroit's Wolf Eyes on Lower Floor Music last year. A 12" flash in the style of vocalist Nate Young and saxophonist John Olson (with guitarist James Baljo completing the lineup). Traditionally a noisy group, here they engage in an experimental work that combines drone and electronic components with noise obsessions, straddling between avant-jazz attempts in the vein of Mats Gustafsson and a Suicide attitude. The title track is a kind of underground recital almost inspired by Jodorowsky, alongside "Laughing Tides," "Texas," and "Empty Island," creating avant-jazz happenings in a cyberpunk context both visionary and structural, a melting-pot of transcontinental sounds. "Thirteen," clearly the highlight of the release (because it lasts indeed more than thirteen minutes, almost fourteen), takes up that underground style, as in literally underground, of the first track, but amplifies the swirling of ghosts, with the evocative role of the saxophone echoing through the tunnels of an abandoned subway, while at the corner a gaunt version of John Lee Hooker strums a dissonant arpeggio and mumbles a hypnotic blues born of paranoid deviations. In essence, I really enjoyed it and highly recommend it; it has clearly made me want to dig back into their massive series of releases: a mission not easy to accomplish. One day.
3-4 stars
#wolfeyes #undertow #experimental #minimal
Undertow | Wolf Eyes
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