Wolf Eyes - Dreams In Splattered Lines

Take a knee: Wolf Eyes are back in the building. Whether they actually ever left it is another question entirely - their subterranean mycorrhizal network runs at its own will whether you've your eyes on it or not. Still, Disciples' recently issued Difficult Messages collection which united a number of the group's disparate offshoots served as a fitting presage to this re-focusing of sorts, a chance to pause and re-consider their ever-present hiding-in-plain-sight and to allow that which never wasn't to return. Where and how Dreams In Spattered Lines figures in the vast catalogue is not something i'm willing nor able to make sense of here, so just take it on its own terms as a 13 track refraction of bespattered electronics, madden-ed/ing digressions and balanced chaos. A LAFMS reimagining of The Voice of America, if you will. And in its way, this is the voice of America as should be, nonsensical only if sense is what you seek, a bloodied and oozing Foucouldian fever dream writ in technological meltdown and decaying uncloseable loops. The same torch they've been carrying for 25 years, but somehow burning a little fiercer in the context of 2023, perhaps now cos we've had time to miss them or because others like CIA Debutante and Mosquitoes carried it so well for them it reaffirmed their worth. Either way, and who really cares anyway - TOTAL PUNK FOREVER