[Album: Dread]
Big name. This was the first piece of noise I probably ever heard – 2:30AM at the community radio station, plucked it out of the CD library and examined the cover. A fingerprint? A grinning face? A crescent. Expecting nothing I popped it into the player. I recall taking off the headphones thirty seconds in and looking at the cover again. Staggering rhythm, no instruments of any sort, and Nate Young’s panicked screaming, and screaming, and screaming; it’s like his leg is caught in a bear trap. I hated it, I think. It wasn’t music. It was noise – not even harsh noise. This is a psychedelic EP, practically groovy when it hits right, and utterly bombastic. Crafted with a wide range in the middle as black and dripping as calligraphy ink. When I came back to Wolf Eyes it was grabbing a copy of Burned Mind. Their track “Stabbed In The Face” sold me on noise forever, but Burn Your House down jarred me enough to fall flat-faced into this hole that I hope I never climb out of. Dread came out in 2001. It started this hellhole century off on the right foot.
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