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As close to perfect as a noise album can be.
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Alternative PressShows signs of nuance and restraint--relatively speaking. [Oct 2006, p.214]
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When these scientists hit on the right formula of slow-burning anticipation, the bombast that follows has the profundity of a drug-induced epiphany. Previous Wolf Eyes records have struck that magic balance during individual songs or sides, but none have stretched it over an album's length like Human Animal.
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The echo-saturated clang works as background music if you’re washing dishes in a haunted house or performing at-home knee surgery, but hunker down with the sound by itself and it evaporates like stale smoke.
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This is a punishing record that manages to be both incredibly dense and yet highly listenable.
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Human Animal comes off as a less directly brutal assault than its predecessor. It sounds a hell of a lot better cranked to ten, though, its contours more explicit, the sounds sharpened to a steely point.
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Human Animal is the most textured and abstract of the band’s “official” releases in years, and while perhaps their methods aren’t new, the results aren’t simply the same old Wolf Eyes.
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The most impressive part of this album is that, throughout its entire tuneless, dissonant thirty-three-minute duration, Human Animal is rarely boring; it's filled with cool sounds.
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UrbAt the same time you contort, squirm and surge toward the non-music, your spirit somehow gets the message. [Oct 2006, p.132]
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This is a densely structured journey through intense pummelling and dervishes of electronic noise.
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UncutA near-perfect balance of industrial threat, hardcore power and black comedy. [Oct 2006, p.134]
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FilterThe word "unnerving" doesn't account for the range of senses that get pulled down into this abyss. [#22, p.98]
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Human Animal certainly isn't something I'd want to pull out on a regular basis, but there's some beautiful evil I can appreciate on this one.
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For Human Animal, Wolf Eyes have stepped back from pure violence, bringing in some of the old cinematic features while retaining pieces of the vicious nature that has served them well.
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MagnetUneven. [#73, p.112]
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An album at once tighter and more terrifying than anything they’ve yet released.
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MojoMeticulously constructed. [Nov 2006, p.114]
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SpinWhen the clamor stays spare, the threesome's clank and bleep stumbles into beauty, and their feedback morphs toward free jazz. [Nov 2006, p.105]
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RussellKDec 27, 2006People need to just take this for what it is, NOISE.
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SommyDec 21, 2006
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!Dec 17, 2006one of the best noise albums recently if you don't like this try with madonna, or artic monkeys, or village people....