[4/5] Wolf Eyes hate you. The Ypsilanti, Michigan, trio despise your smug concept of what constitutes "proper" music, your pathetic need to hear hooky choruses and decipherable lyrics, your timid notions about "staying in tune," and sensible volume levels. Actually, scratch all of that: Wolf Eyes don't give a fuck what you think. And that, paradoxically, is how they've gotten so far in this business. Human Animal, Wolf Eyes' improbable second album for big indie Sub Pop, shows signs of nuance and restraint-relatively speaking. With Hair Police's Mike Connelly replacing Aaron Dilloway, Wolf Eyes make greater use of space and rely more on sparse yet unnerving atmos-fearics. Nate Young occasionally gargles demonically into a mic and John Olson sporadically expels noxious air into a sax, but Human Animal is mostly a cantankerous collection of elephantine belly rumbles, rustbelt anti-symphonies, and bovine-bone-grinding suites. I don't hear a single, boys. (SUB POP) Dave Segal
ROCKS LIKE: Yellow Swans' Bring The Neon War Home • Dead Machines' Futures • Kites' Peace Trials
 Official Website: http://www.subpop.com
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