Wolf Eyes

Baljo left the group, and Wolf Eyes returned to the core duo of Young and Olson, along with several collaborators. The two reunited with Universal Indians' Gretchen Gonzales and Dilloway, merging into Universal Eyes, and Four Variations on 'Artificial Society' was released in 2018. Wolf Eyes continued their endless flow of limited, self-issued artifacts, and Difficult Messages, released by Disciples in 2023, consisted of collaborative tracks which originally appeared on hand-painted 7" single box sets, including recordings with Pulitzer Prize winner Raven Chacon and Alexander Moskos (aka Drainolith). The group's next proper long player was informed by a residency they participated in at The New York Public Library For The Performing Arts in late 2021 and early 2022. During this residency, Wolf Eyes built original instruments that would become part of the library's permanent collection, and recorded a limited edition album with the instruments that was given away to the public for free. In their downtime in New York, Young and Olson took in museum exhibitions on surrealism, taking particular inspiration from learning about the Chicago Surrealists’ spoken-word poetry collaborations with musicians. They wove some of this inspiration into the short form collages they and other artists worked on for Difficult Messages, and continued this approach in duo form on Dreams in Splattered Lines. Released in May of 2023, Dreams in Splattered Lines collected multiple consise tracks of dense sound collage and collisions of Olson's homemade horns with Young's minimal electronics and bleakly poetic sung/spoke vocals. ~ Wade Kergan & Paul Simpson

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