Difficult Messages, by Wolf Eyes v/a

Difficult Messages

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Clear vinyl in reverse board colour printed sleeve with 16 page A5 stapled booklet

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1.	Phone Intro 01:01	info	buy track
2.	Short Hands - Dank Boone 03:18	info	buy track
3.	Time Designers - Passive Tempos 03:39	info	buy track
4.	Gretchen - Locked Rivers 03:14	info	buy track
5.	Stare Case - Lost Head 04:23	info	buy track
6.	U Eye Trio - Courted Reverb 04:16	info	buy track
7.	Short Hands - 3rd Night Tax Edit 04:00	info	buy track
8.	Animal Sounds - Michigan Red Squirrel 05:54	info	buy track
9.	Wolf Raven - Tulsa Once 02:47	info	buy track
10.	Universal Eyes - Tense Lapse 03:39	info	buy track
11.	Invisible Thread - Feedback 6 04:39	info	buy track

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A selection of private press 45s featuring Nate Young, John Olson, Alex Moskos, Gretchen Gonzales, Aaron Dilloway & Raven Chacon. These collaborations between the core Wolf Eyes crew and friends was originally self-released as a series of super-limited 7” hand painted box sets, but now the core ‘hits’ have been compiled by Disciples for wider consumption.

Wolf Eyes' history with collaboration goes back almost 26 years. From the first Wolf Eyes w/Spykes concert that led to Olson joining the band to Smegma, Braxton, Richard Pinhas, Merzbow, Marshall Allen, and many more. Wolf Eyes has continued expanding musical ideas through collaboration and Difficult Messages is the first compilation of this practice.

Many of the bands on 'Difficult Messages' exist inside an assemblage of a mail art tradition. Most of the music was made remotely and this allowed for deeper exploration into styles that might have been too uncomfortable to attempt face to face. Short Hands finds Nate Young, and Alex Moskos exchanging bass and guitar fragments with Olson’s reeds and tones overtop sculpted into odd rock songs. Wolf Raven touches on harsh electronics and pushes forward into postmodern ideas of composition. Time Designers is a duo of Alex Moskos and Nate Young using hacked drum machines and a 'design' approach to organizing sound. U Eye finds Olson and Young alongside longtime collaborators Gretchen Gonzales and Aaron Dilloway for a scrape and tape session recorded by Warren Defever. Stare Case is Olson and Young in a non-Wolf duo. Perhaps the only 'rules following' project these two have EVER had. The collection of audio tracks could be looked at as an exquisite corpse: a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled. With this method over thirty tracks and four hundred paintings were created.

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released January 27, 2023

Cover painting by Olson and Young. Zine text by Moskos, Olson and Young. Layout by Studio Tape Echo. Mixed and mastered by Warren Defever at Third Man, Detroit. Cut by Kassian Troyer at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin. Sequenced by Disciples.

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