Wednesday, July 26, 2006  11:33 am 

Wolf being a wolf for the wolf

Hi Kids, apologies for the lack of posts this week but we’ve been fighting the heatwave and the black bugs that started appearing in the periphery of our vision as soon as we stopped smoking cigarrettes after the busy gross weekend.

We have also been ‘absorbing’ the new Wolf Eyes album, ‘Human Animal’, released by Sub Pop soon, it’s a bit like the beginning of Alien, you know, a slimy tentacle around your neck and that subconscious prototypical male monster designer fear of the vagina aperture kissing your mouth* for two days and then some calm before the storm and then BANG a horrible chitinous hungry creature bursts out of your chest it hurts, ouch-y. Lots of blood & entrails all over, yumm-y.

It is fucking awful.

Wolf Eyes- The Driller

Of course we love it, Wolf Eyes stll have a knack for lovely naive track-titles such as ‘Leper War’ or ‘Lake of Roaches’, in this case the name of the ’song’ describes quite accurately the sort of alienating industrial torture chamber dirge in which you
will find yourself trapped when you press play.

I don’t think this record is going to bother the charts although in our warped opinion the pounding beats are undoubtedly anthemic and will make us headbang like Beavis and Butthead in a bad acid trip next time we see them live or someone’s got what it takes to play them ‘in da club’.

And we continue with summery stuff as the screaming vanishes and you find yourself lost in some sort of very badly rendered extraterrestrial b&w jungle, surrounded by poisonous static as the ghostly drumming of some alien heart of darkness throbs and the knots of a gristly glitch sequence closes around your neck, ominuous treacherous eerily graceful manta ray majestic melodies hover in the rotten air of the swamp, this suite could have soundtracked David Lynch’s version of that scene of Princess Mononoke where the fungi spirits of the Forest surrounded Kodama, or the birth of some shadow creature you’d rather not see, it’s first cry of live is horrific and strange and beautiful.

WZT Hearts- Song 1

WZT Hearts hail from Baltimore and sound like the Animal Collective if they read Gibson not Whitman, or Gang Gang Dance lost in the eye of the fiery introspective white noise cosmical wonder hurricane Liars come out from time to time to give a gig and stuff.

Their debut album is called Heat Chief and has been released by Hitdat Records.

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*See also Guild Space Navigators in Dune

PS-

Todo this week- Make Motion Matter in the Penthouse on thursday: electro, post punk, no wave, grime, hip hop and percussive oddities, free entry and cheap beer, 8-12!

Download the nite’s mixtape here

Zombi and Thrones and Tall one Behind live at the Engine Rooms on Friday 28th

And that same day, come after to Sci-Fi party at the Hanbury Ballrooms: Now, Raised by Wolves and Sticks play live and 20JFG (not soundsystem) play raging no wave, krautrock and generally fucked up stuff from 12.Fun for all the family yeah yeah

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