Over the past couple years Iron Lung records has kept up a high quality standard of releases. While they tend to release a fair bit of demented, violent, and angry hardcore they also veer into other terrains with a careful measure and a tasteful ear. The Wild Animals In My Life is Iron Lung's second release and first full length for the the band FLESH WORLD.

The groups sound is informed by the criminally neglected, and looked over, predecessor Brilliant Colors, with the added tinge of hardcore from a shared member of the band NEEDLES. The Wild Animals In My Life could have well been a Sousixie and the Banshees record had that band embraced Clay Records UK hardcore. Not unlike DISCHARGE's melding of anti-war senryus with walls of wild distortion and feedback FLESH WORLD keep the words to a minimum but with the noise controlled replacing discordant ferocity with dark jangled melodies. The legendary Don Pyle (SHADOWY MEN ON A SHADOWY PLANET, THE SADIES, SOUPCANS) heavy on the reverb production contributes just as much to the sound of the group than the playing itself. Vocals appear as a distant waft of sound reminding the listener that this music is not for them as much as it is for those who made it (these are not the wild animals in your life, after all). The animals these songs speak to are indeed wild and the tight guitar interplay and consistent pounding drums seek to control and tame the beasts, caged the wild into 2 minute bursts of dark energy. In the strange and surreal landscape of flesh, these animals should be revered for the beauty and intrigue they display.