Wolf Eyes
Always Wrong

A Norman Records recommendation (12th June 2009)

Cover art for Always Wrong by Wolf Eyes Description: CD on Hospital
Format: CD
Genre(s): Noise / Industrial / Extreme
Label: Hospital Productions
Price:
£13.19
Availability: Dispatched within 2-5 days (on average).

5Rating: 5
...according to our on 11 June 2009.

Wolf Eyes are severe! Real severe! Like, ripping the eyes from your newly born child's sockets and playing a little game of keepsy upsie's in the hospital car park with 'em! 'Always wrong' is maybe the most severe of the Wolf Eyes records i've been fortune enough to be exposed too and i'm sure it won't disappoint the legion's a crazy fans they've managed to amass with there take on psychedelic post-industrial noise terror. The sounds on this L.P are well fucked up! Heavily treated drums replace electronic beats and a crazed saxophone back-up a course, untreated and very angry vocalist on opening track 'Cellar'. It's cool that the vocal sounds scarier untreated rather than treated, very gravelly. Second track 'Living stone' hints at ambience for a few minutes before breaking into a frenzy and fractured beats and insane down-tuned guitars that is 'Broken order'. Again, rage spits forth from the vocal mic and i'm huddled in a corner fearing for my life! This record gives me the fucking shits yo! Harsh industrial ambience is clearly the order of the day but i get the impression this album is made up primarily of organic sounds which gives it an accessibility to new listeners that is not apparent in previous releases. Title track 'Always wrong' begins with one of the best drilling noises i've ever heard outside of a building site and the the tune kicks ass, like a mid 80's hardcore tune drenched in putrid noise and filth!! YES!! Keep on keeping on good sir's.

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Sound clips for Always Wrong by Wolf Eyes: on CD at Norman Records UK. CD, Hospital Productions, HOS245 , £13.19.

What their label says...

Always Wrong is a mantra of severity. Wolf Eyes has been scouring audiences across the globe with their acid drenched industrial noise and dub terror psychedelia, establishing themselves as the trailblazers of a genre and pioneers of the long-form noise tour.  coming forth from the piles of tape loops and effects the bulk of tables reeling with electronics have been shed. This clarity never sacrifices intensity as paradoxically this is the most organic of the full lengths but also the harshest and most dissonant. Opening track “Cellar” immediately sets the pace of barraged edits and percussive electronics as startling vocals spit from the dry throat and remain unfiltered for the first time breathing a clear litany of scorn.  a new voice is rising and it isn't happy. throughout the album non-electronic beats created from live drums replace programming while colliding tape loops and junk metal bring new unstable rhythm like a house with erroding foundation.  “Living Stone” shows a more natural state of acoustic composition highlighting the despondent  subtle plucking of controlled guitar improvisation that could come from natures ghost. forging ahead in “We All Hate You” loud tonal horns and architectuarly placed electronics.  however their aesthetic core of pummeling hasn't been abandoned as the aggressive “Broken Order” takes hold with shrill feedback fueling industrial cannon blasts of white hot noise that burn the body from the neck down. an eerie harmonica driven death march straight out of "once upon a time in the west" cries on the closing track 'droll/cut the dog'  Immediately it is clear that Wolf Eyes have crafted a statement with maturity that stands at the top of their mysterious discography. Always Wrong is a denial against conformity and the triumph of walking a path alone. Young, Olson, Connelly.