On the final Friday of January, the shadowy noise duo known as Wolf Eyes released Difficult Messages, a compilation album of rare collaborations recorded over the past several years. Comprising 11 tracks gathered from a “series of super-limited seven-inch hand-painted box sets” (per a press release), it’s a fitting way for one of modern music’s most transgressive projects — founded in the ’90s as the solo endeavor of Nate Young and soon joined by John Olson and Aaron Dilloway, the latter of whom left in the mid aughts to pursue his own uncompromising solo career — to enter its second quarter century of existence. Messages features contributions from Dilloway, Alex Moskos, Gretchen Gonzales, and Raven Chacon.

Today (February 8) on The FADER, Wolf Eyes are premiering three short clips inspired by songs from the new album. Less than traditional music videos, they’re miniature, mildly disturbing abstractions set to music, none of which adhere to the run times of the tracks whose names they bear.

“Short Hands – Dank Boone” — a sparse Young/Moskos bass/guitar creation, with hissing feedback and mumbled, punk-bluesy vocals provided by Olson — is accompanied by a series of disjointed shots that capture scenes of natural phenomena (a frozen pond, a fish fossil, lava, etc.), the fumigation of a building, Olson and Young peeling off the gory face makeup pictured above, Danny DeVito as the Penguin, and more.

“Wolf Raven – Tulsa Once” — an obliterating Chacon collab full of frantic, screaming static — gets what appears to be an iMovie montage of random stills from Olson’s camera roll, including but not limited to idyllic landscapes, a closeup on a fucked-up-looking guitar pedal, a messy desk tableau, and a portrait of a Wonder Woman-themed Cool Ranch Doritos bag.

And “Time Designer – Passive Tempos” — another Young/Moskos number that’s a case study in jittery, polyrhythmic percussion — receives the longest treatment of the group: a single, shaky-cam shot of a sunny drive around Montreal.

In addition to the new videos, Young and Olson both took the time to send The FADER some words that help to demystify some of the magic behind their Difficult Messages. Read their statements, watch the clips, and listen to the album below.