Originally released as a seven inch and two CD-Rs on the American Tapes label a couple of years back, this is a gratefully received reissue. Combined into one ugly genetic mishap and flesh hacked covered package by Aaron Dilloway's Hanson label, this is a disintegrated release full of blossoming black sounds. Collection is another piece of weighty evidence in the already inexorable case for Wolf Eyes' limited items needing to receive the same sort of press as their Sub Pop releases.
Here, the music is so intensely bordering the line between beauty and deconstructed sound exploration. The sheer breadth of textures and styles that they have used is nothing short of astounding. The lightness of touch and obvious connectivity reveals the brains behind the more visible brutish roots of their more well known and slasher-flick titled material. The band’s DIY press releases have always veered that little bit more to the left than their big releases, documenting more closely the zoned-out splendour in the Coors / weed-fuelled stage jams. Anyone who remains still unconvinced that these guys aren't the real deal, this is the one of the easiest to find pieces of evidence for the defense yet.
The tracks run from just over a minute to an over 30 minute long finale, but it would be ridiculous to try to pigeonhole these pieces into single-styled pieces. Scattered between exploring inner worlds and blowing-out corneas through riotous frequency changes, this is the place where digits are bent from their 0 and 1 roots into self-adapting cyborg sinews. Elements like stuck groove bell work, tape machine cloud cover and delicate looped horns seem like perfectly constructed movements, musical conclusions of thirty minutes of sweaty improv work.
Beautifully cut down to size, Collection is about construction through a group mind with tourmate and longterm friend John Wiese fitting into the dynamic seamlessly. Wolf Eyes steady stream of releases are making this all seem so easy.
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