GREY WOLVES appreciation thread

Started by HongKongGoolagong, September 29, 2013, 06:35:29 PM

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Quote from: acsenger on May 25, 2016, 10:51:52 AM
Has anyone heard the JFK/Grey Wolves Assassin LP

It's much more in the vein of stuff like "Judgement" than the later GW LPs on Tesco, but way less tape crumble kind of sound. I would liken the fidelity to something like "Blood and Sand". Left me pretty underwhelmed to be honest.

FreakAnimalFinland

I'd assume that JFK contribution dominates in form of constant drum machine beats. It seems clear that this wasn't intended as "album" like GW stuff on Tesco for example. It was collaboration tape, which remained almost unheard for decades. I have no complaints, though! I think it's not to be expected to be competing with albums, but simply collaboration release that presents fusion of JFK's atmospheric repeating rhythms and GW's suffocating atmospheric electronics. Perhaps lack of very drastic variation is the weakness of album, but as it stands rather unique recording in both bands discography, for me this is very justified addition to collection. May need more listening to full present itself beyond the obvious clear rhythms.
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Salford Electronics is out now too

Deadpriest

The collaboration with Gen Org is amazing.
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Deadpriest

The Collab. with Sudden Infant and Macronympha is stunning.
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GEWALTMONOPOL

UK people may be interested to know that I have the Catholic Priests CD from Hospital here. £9.00 plus p+p.

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FreakAnimalFinland

Damn this reissue of Catholic Priests is good!
First of all, I remember talking with label about all the possibilities how to make it as close as possible to original. Hospital was considering various options, but this slipcase and jewelbox with full original design is great. No blurs, no cmyk color fuck ups, no revisionism. 3 panel "booklet" is basically replica of original, and inlay/slipcase is tasty addition.

But what about sound itself? I was mentioned that they hunted each track original DAT tape master, that it wasn't just one DAT master, but tracks scattered on multiple tapes. And now when you listen for the CD what presents the dat material "as is", without restoration or modification, one can conclude that even if you have the LP, this is worth to have.

It may be tough for vinyl fans to admit, but this material does benefit from CD release. 1996 dmm cut ain't the best possible sound if comparing to depth and clarity of all detail in these original recordings. Suddenly many tracks appear as veil of hissy cloud is removed. Not that I'd get rid of my original LP, nor my passion for vinyl records, but if you objectively look at the facts... this cd is better.

With the stream of rather lame looking reissues, this one stands as good example how they could be done. Respecting the original, but also professionally!
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PTM Jim

Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on September 02, 2017, 12:59:35 PM
3 panel "booklet" is basically replica of original, and inlay/slipcase is tasty addition.

This is my favorite part of the reissue. It's almost as if the original had been perfectly shrunk down.

Andrew McIntosh

Sadly not available from Hospital's download section. I hope it gets included sooner rather than later.
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FreakAnimalFinland

I think you can see pretty much all you want to see without opening it. It is old PDB catalogue printed inside slipcase and you can quite easily read it simply by looking inside.

Quite curious for the GW last album. Being announced as last album, and these seemed to be somehow "tension" there judging by some online comments. I wonder if GW will keep doing gigs and/or re-issues, but certainly hope handful of old milestone releases would be re-issued properly before they fully quit...
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Warfare Noise

Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on September 07, 2017, 03:12:28 PM
Quite curious for the GW last album. Being announced as last album, and these seemed to be somehow "tension" there judging by some online comments. I wonder if GW will keep doing gigs and/or re-issues, but certainly hope handful of old milestone releases would be re-issued properly before they fully quit...

Assuming you are talking about Exit Strategy? Description on Tesco sounds like its soundtrack work being released in advance of the film as opposed to a GW album proper. I'd assume the parameters of soundtrack work exclude some of the more PE aspects of the GW work, sadly.

Personally, i'm less than thrilled about Jerome being involved with this one as I don't think his tastes in production and fidelity marries well with the voyeuristic and damaged quality of my favorite GW recordings... and the samples posted up on Tesco seem to support that. Despite these concerns, i've enthusiastically preordered the lp from Jane. For my tastes, a bad GW albums is still going to be more interesting than the majority of other new albums released this year.

NaturalOrthodoxy

Quote from: Warfare Noise on September 11, 2017, 08:52:53 PM

Assuming you are talking about Exit Strategy? Description on Tesco sounds like its soundtrack work being released in advance of the film as opposed to a GW album proper. I'd assume the parameters of soundtrack work exclude some of the more PE aspects of the GW work, sadly.


When I read "as yet unmade" I took that to mean that it's a soundtrack to a non-existent film. In the same way that some acts specify that an album is "meant to be a soundtrack for [X activity or concept]" I assumed that phrase was included to give some kind of diegetic context.

I might be totally wrong though, in which case it'd be cool to hear TGW take on soundtracking duties!

Andrew McIntosh

Anyone else find "Exit Strategy" over produced and underwhelming?
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Euro Trash Bazooka

Quote from: Andrew McIntosh on November 07, 2017, 09:32:21 AM
Anyone else find "Exit Strategy" over produced and underwhelming?

It sounds like boring techno to me or something like that. Big letdown.
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NaturalOrthodoxy

Quote from: Euro Trash Bazooka on November 07, 2017, 02:22:39 PM
Quote from: Andrew McIntosh on November 07, 2017, 09:32:21 AM
Anyone else find "Exit Strategy" over produced and underwhelming?

It sounds like boring techno to me or something like that. Big letdown.

I enjoy it as a standalone release but granted it's not the "farewell" album for such an important band that it could have been.