Third Man recording group Wolf Eyes have unleashed a brilliantly barmy new music video for “T.O.D.D.” featured on the venerable band’s acclaimed 2015 label debut, I AM A PROBLEM: MIND IN PIECES.
“T.O.D.D.” is directed by Paris-based artist/filmmaker Will Benedict, in collaboration with Copenhagen-based artist Steffen Jørgensen. The music video – in which an alien discusses issues surrounding assimilation in an extra global context while drawing parallels with Europe's current migrant crisis with television talk show host Charlie Rose – will be included at the 9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, curated by New York-based collective DIS and continuing through the summer.
Founded two decades ago in Ann Arbor, Wolf Eyes recently headlined the first (and last) Trip Metal Fest, a remarkable Detroit gathering of experimental artists, noise rockers, and sonic improvisers. The three-day event received widespread national coverage, including a major feature in the New York Times.
I AM A PROBLEM: MIND IN PIECES was among 2015’s most highly praised recordings, proclaimed by The Quietus as “a must for all fans of fucked-up outsider rock.” The album “contains all the ominous suspense of a classic horror movie,” wrote Pitchfork. “Each track oozes with eerie tones and seat-edge momentum, such that something terrifying seems to always lurk around the corner.” I AM A PROBLEM: MIND IN PIECES “evokes classical Wolf Eyes in ways that count,” noted SPIN in an 8-out-of-10-rated rave, “but under that rich seasoning of clatters, slithers, feedback, and digested vocal malaise writhe songs.” “A gasping, heaving monster,” applauded Stereogum. “Parts of it sound a bit more like rock music than the things this band has made before.” Paste celebrated Wolf Eyes’ “utter disdain for normalcy,” noting that “hooking up with Third Man…might indicate immortality for an ensemble that could have just decided to fleece the noise genre’s fast-decaying corpse.”
wow…. this alien invasion thing is just over the top… my computer doesnt even want me to load the unsafe scripts associated with chat now days/// spiders from mars?? oh yee puritans carry on!!! see you in the neighborhood kids!
This sucks. If you can’t understand the lyrics it sucks ass. Go bye bye.
Are Wolf Eyes big fans of Tool?
Tessie Clune who is in chat a lot has to say about Wolf Eyes….. she seems to be an artist too writes in eliptical phrases just like me …. she also has a lot of online art at deviant art and youtube.com videos out there TNPianoGirl …..
The stranglers thing is is the song title “T.O.D.D.” is the the same name of the trolling system here in franklin….that that was interesting…
TNPianoGirl The strangest thing*
TNPianoGirl Anyways I wanted to share that…
TNPianoGirl You all may proceed… I just mentioned the Shapshifter interview of wolf eyes…
and …… Did I happen to mention that the video is pure genius???? this needs to be a full length movie where the aliens teach earthlings just how sacred music really is……. ID4 will have nothin on this flick and Fury Road will look like alphabet soup next to this waking of Cruithne 3753 Apolocolyptic Tale of The Day That Rock Ruled the World!!!! Surely this is Bowie Inspired and Grace Jones required listening!!!! Chthulu got nothin on this either!
Holy Crap!!!!! this is over the top mad fun!!!! These quotes alone ……..“recently headlined the first (and last) Trip Metal Fest”,………. “Parts of it sound a bit more like rock music than the things this band has made before.” Paste celebrated Wolf Eyes’ “utter disdain for normalcy,” noting that “hooking up with Third Man…might indicate immortality for an ensemble that could have just decided to fleece the noise genre’s fast-decaying corpse.” ….. “and brilliantly barmy” have literally cracked a hole in the sky and challenged the universe to come up with something better!!! Eat your heart out Monster Magnet…. you got nothin on Wolf Eyes in the realm of Drama Rockers!!! yeah man…. its like that! The Swans need to open for these guys in my opinion!
Wow very cool…