Volcanic Tongue Catalogue

Wolf Eyes
The Driller/Psychogeist

Sub Pop SP-721

12"
£5.99


Brand new limited to 2000 Wolf Eyes single, a primer for their forthcoming Sub Pop album, Human Animal. More overtly tonal aspect to the jams here, with complex, hallucinatory arrangements of machine thud, horns, machine-braided feedback spirals and Nate's infernal vocal stylings that cross the thug-dynamism of Burned Mind with a deeper, more psychedelic, sound-field. B-side is exclusive to this release. Artwork by Olson, mixed by Aaron Dilloway. Fantastic.

Pissed Jeans
Hope For Men

Sub Pop SPCD-730

CD
£10.99


Excellent new album from this beautifully grimy thug/punk unit, now signed to Sub Pop. The heaviest influence here is undoubtedly Von Lmo circa that nuts performance on the CBGBs doc Under Underground, with that same up-tight schizophrenic power riff style, albeit cut up with lashings of bass downs, flailing post Greg Ginn hardcore fingers, some wasted metal drama and the kind of funny, supremely self-loathing lyrics that are somewhere between Killdozer, King Missile and The Butthole Surfers. Just great to hear a contemporary rock band that actually rocks And this is their best yet.

Wolf Eyes
Human Animal

Sub Pop SP-688

LP
£13.99


2006 Sub Pop album from the Wolf Eyes trio of John Olson, Nate Young and Mike Connelly, mixed by former member Aaron Dilloway, the official follow-up to Burned Mind. The preceding Human Animal 12" gives a good snapshot of the kind of blasted topography that the group map out here, with the first half of the album given over to the kind of eerie midnight stasis sound of the group circa River Slaughter albeit given a hi-fi upgrade and new depth of field via slow smokes of drone and viper-shots of electronics. The drum machine is at its most space-puncturing, firing repeat beats into cloaks of doom while Olson works serpentine sax patterns into steel helixes somewhere at the bottom of a ventilation shaft. One track features creeped-out spoken word narration, while over on the flip/later tracks the group move into full pit-pounding mode with assaultive nod-out rhythms and Nate's insane post-Iggy vocal shred moves foregrounded by a ton of metal. Exactingly programmed, this is the one to peak with. Highly recommended. Vinyl edition limited.