Undertow, by Wolf Eyes

Undertow

by Wolf Eyes

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dwallraf My commuting soundtrack. Alienation sanitation. Favorite track: Thirteen.

florestan1 Wolf Eyes have mellowed? It’s all relative. Still go-to band for mood-music, if yr making docs about modern nihilism and alienation. Just as intense, albeit less noisy.

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Vinyl edition comes with double-sided foldout A2 poster / zine and DL card.

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1.	Undertow 04:40	buy track
2.	Laughing Tides 01:50	buy track
3.	Texas 04:00	buy track
4.	Empty Island 03:40	buy track
5.	Thirteen 13:53	buy track

about

Times of chaos ring the bells for the newest sea-bottom R&B sound lurch from radical sonic artists WOLF EYES. The U$A’s longest-running homemade primitive electronic poetry & vibes trio launch another scotched taped nuclear audio front on humanity. The 2017 release Undertow finds the trio diving into new depths of the electronic and free jazz infected world. A world they created themselves from scratch, running over the course of two decades.

The vinyl edition comes with a double-sided foldout A2 poster featuring album artwork on one side and a compilation of gig flyers and imagery documenting twenty years of noise and troubled chaos on the reverse. A full download card is also included.

Formed in 1996 in Detroit, Michigan, WOLF EYES have recorded for Sub Pop, Troubleman Unlimited, De Stijl and most recently Jack White’s Third Man label, as well as their countless self-released documents of audio destruction and micro-run slabs of noise. The band has an inzane history of collaborations, side projects and solo outputs. While staying consistently road-hardened they’ve shared stages with everyone from Sonic Youth to Anthony Braxton to Andrew W.K. to Aphex Twin to Morton Subotnick. The Wolf boys also continue to play gigs with all like-minded outsider stoner/loner freaks in the world’s basements, from whence this beast originally emerged.

LOWER FLOOR MUSIC is a brand new imprint dedicated to the group’s cultural vision. The Lower Floor Music label will be curated by Wolf Eyes and feature both new and archival visions from the band as well as work by like-minded artists. Lower Floor Music will benefit from a world-wild distribution deal providing fans of electronic music across the globe access to Wolf Eyes’ sound-vision and like-minded community spirits. The idea of a home-basement for Wolf Eyes is not new. Since 1998 the band has generated a massive tidal wave of releases nearly adding up to over 500 titles; mostly limited from 2-100 copies. Released on American Tapes, Hanson, AA, Warzone, and countless other independent/homemade labels, these documents often vanished forever into the arcane crypts of collectors. WOLF EYES has the unending thirst to explore every shadowy sonic corner of the homespun audio universe.

"UNDERTOW" and "LOWER FLOOR MUSIC": direct expression from the rotten rat explorers to sink into the seams of your soul.

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released March 24, 2017

Music by Nate Young / John Olson / James Baljo

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Wolf Eyes Michigan

Wolf Eyes is from Michigan. They are known for their bizarre and otherworldly approach to everything.

shows

Apr 16

Tubby's Kingston

Kingston, NY
Apr 18

Le Poisson Rouge

New York (NYC), NY
Apr 19

Solar Myth (presented By Ars Nova Workshop)

Philadelphia, PA
Apr 20

Solar Myth (presented By Ars Nova Workshop)

Philadelphia, PA
May 29

Parc del Fòrum

Barcelona, Spain
Jun 2

Broadcast

Glasgow, UK
Jun 5

The White Hotel

Salford, UK
Jun 6

Parque da Cidade

Porto, Portugal
Jun 6

The Grand Social

Dublin, Ireland
Jun 12

SODAS 2123

Vilnius, Lithuania
Jun 13

1983

Riga, Latvia

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