Clear Vinyl - Housed in Reverse Board Colour Printed Sleeve with 16 Page A5 Stapled Booklet
When is a Wolf Eyes not a Wolf Eyes. Whenever they want i'd suppose, but especially so on Difficult Messages. The Wolf Eyes back catalogue is multi-branched to a near-maddening degree, instilled with its own mycological system where not so much all roads lead back to as spread out interconnectedly forever. Good luck catchin' 'em all. Difficult Messages speaks very clearly to their principle philosophy, collecting together eleven tracks from the supremely limited series of 7" box sets Olson, Young, Dolloway et al have self-released in collaboration under various monikers over the years. This is by no means all of the music they've released in this manner - and nor would you consider it a best of - rather a snapshot of hive mind exploration, mostly written in 'assemblage' over distance in that very LAFMS way (more on this elsewhere this week). As such, these songs don't really resemble any particular famed/notorious iteration of Wolf Eyes, instead reflecting all manners of sonic enquiry that comprise its constituency. Noise excursions, debased electronics, avant campfire hymnals, improvised sound art (with an iconoclastic bent naturally - nothing with this lot ever feels like an extension of orthodoxy or institution)... it's a broad church from a tight congregation preaching from no single altar, as welcoming as it is provocative. Hey, you might even describe Short Hands' '3rd Night Tax Edit' as pretty (if you're weird). Who knew! With such open-ended approaches at its heart, names become irrelevant, perhaps making this the most Wolf Eyes Wolf Eyes there is.
