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Burned Mind Image
Metascore
70

Generally favorable reviews - based on 27 Critic Reviews What's this?

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6.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 13 Ratings

  • Summary: Their first Sub Pop release finds the noisy Detroit band as a threesome, with founder Nate Young joined (as he has been since 2000) by Aaron Dilloway and John Olson.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 27
  2. Negative: 3 out of 27
  1. Mojo
    90
    A masterpiece of controlled electronic violence. [Nov 2004, p.102]
  2. Burned Mind isn't just Wolf Eyes' most cohesive album, it's also their most accessible.
  3. After establishing its grim M.O., the album settles into a mesmerizing set that scours the edge it leaps over so unhaltingly.
  4. Take[s] their haunted-house shtick to frightening extremes.
  5. Q Magazine
    60
    Exists in the blurry middle ground that separates provocative experimental art from utter nonsense. [Nov 2004, p.130]
  6. Under The Radar
    0
    This is astonishingly horrible and completely unlistenable. [#7]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 9
  2. Negative: 2 out of 9
  1. jaredh
    Oct 24, 2004
    10
    This album is for the ages. A noise masterpiece. In a post-apocalyptic world, this is pop music. Like Sonic Youth's first masterpiece, This album is for the ages. A noise masterpiece. In a post-apocalyptic world, this is pop music. Like Sonic Youth's first masterpiece, Evol, Burned Mind blends fun with noise. Except here the fun is found in the rhythms and loud-as-hell dynamic, not in pop hooks. Certainly not in pop hooks. Most definitely not in pop hooks. But who needs pop hooks? Expand
  2. JohnF
    Dec 31, 2004
    9
    "Burned Mind" is the best Ja Rule/Snow Patrol mash-up you've never heard. Period.
  3. ScissorShock
    Mar 4, 2005
    9
    Really good. In a lot of ways, life-changing. My advice is to just put on headphones, turn this up, and soak up the sound.
  4. DonW.
    Nov 8, 2004
    8
    It's pretty insane that a band like Wolf Eyes has an album out on SubPop and even crazier that it's being discussed on Metacritic. It's pretty insane that a band like Wolf Eyes has an album out on SubPop and even crazier that it's being discussed on Metacritic. This stuff isn't for everybody to say the least. That said, I find their music to be utterly without pretense. There's nothing to "understand" or "get". You either enjoy this kind of brutality or you don't. It doesn't matter whether or not this kind of music is "easy" to make or whether Wolf Eyes are "good musicians" in the traditional sense any more than that mattered with early punk bands. (As it happens, Wolf Eyes manage to manipulate a variety or instruments - some of which they've built themselves - and found gadgets with remarkable cohesion.) What matter is that they really mean it, and I really like it. Expand
  5. s.roberts
    Mar 31, 2005
    8
    evil, cold. extremly primitive, in a very good way. i love how every one who has something against this band is like "i could do this with a evil, cold. extremly primitive, in a very good way. i love how every one who has something against this band is like "i could do this with a synth and a guitar!"...no, you couldn't, and niether could anyone else you know Expand
  6. Nick
    Sep 12, 2006
    5
    This is actually pretty weak as far as noise goes in my opinion. I just don't like the textures they bring to the table. I would This is actually pretty weak as far as noise goes in my opinion. I just don't like the textures they bring to the table. I would recommend Prurient, Mouthus, Double Leopards or Birchville Cat Motel. Wolf Eyes aren't that great. I don't know what the deal is. Expand
  7. FrankB
    Oct 25, 2004
    0
    The emperor has no clothes. All this band does is make noise. Any kid with a synthesizer can do this.

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