Why? - Alopecia
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Artist: Why?Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-03-11
Music Label: Anticon
Soundtracks:
- Vowels, Pt. 2
- Good Friday
- These Few Presidents
- Hollows
- Song of the Sad Assassin
- Gnashville
- Fatalist Palmistry
- Fall of Mr Fifths
- Brook & Waxing
- Sky for Shoeing Horses Under
- Twenty-Eight
- Simeon's Dilemma
- By Torpedo or Crohn's
- Exegesis
Free Music Notes for Alopecia
Free Music Review: With Alopecia, Why? confirm their position as the next big band.
Hit: 5 Stars
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Clear sound. Good original tunes with unpredictable inventive changes. Sharp lyrics. Sometimes ambient, sometimes street. What more could you ask?
Why? slow rap down, (so you can hear the words), and give it a melodisity which makes it more accessible to the white listener. The lyric style (invented by REM) is obscure but intriguing. Sometimes they're telling a personal story which touches off resonances in your own experience, but only obliquely. I don't know how they do it but the words work a magic. Why?'s sound and lyrics have, now, overtaken REM. What they lack is REM's driving rhythm and that's what's keeping them out of the mainstream, but maybe that's not worrying them and they'd rather stay true to their aim.
There's a swagger to the rap of Why? that I like. Lead singer Yoni Wolf's boy-next-door-but-hip voice explores adolescence like it was yesterday (which for him it was). They melt rap, hip-hop and boy-band pop into a wide awake, just graduated from high-school, atmosphere, playing on their youth and sexuality and not realising that they're not quite making it in the adult world - yet.
So the simplistic skeleton of sound which greets your ears on the first listening fills out with repeated listening to become almost a symphony and you notice female choruses, and melody lines. If you asked me what any of the songs were about I couldn't tell you, and yet I get strong images from all of them. At times it's the sophisticated sound of ultra-modernity, yet there's always that human touch to it.
Or to put it another way:
Like appreciation of all great rock. The first time you hear it it's like a jigsaw puzzle, but with only twenty or so pieces giving an incomplete picture. And then each subsequent time you listen more and more pieces appear adding to your enjoyment of the overall picture. Whereas with mundane rock what you hear the first time may increase with subsequent listens but by not much, maybe nothing at all. That's not the case with Why? the first time I listened I thought, this is interesting but not up to Elephant Eyelash (their first L.P.). But what I heard convinced me there was enough there to warrant further investigation. It was only after 5 plays that I realised the album had a real worth. I suppose it's all down to layers of worth that are not apparent on first hearing. If you want to see them search:
The Vowels Pt. 2 LIVE
on YouTube (and I hope the guy with the crutch didn't get hurt).
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As expected, the band--Yoni Wolf, Josiah Wolf, Doug McDiarmid--continues its calculated blitzkrieg on that self-made jangle-rap, indie pop 'n' roll genre, but the stakes are raised. The boys returned to their Midwest roots for Alopecia, hunkering down in Minneapolis's Third Ear studio and inducting a pair of venerable big guns into the band: Fog mastermind Andrew Broder and bassist Mark "Bear" Erickson. Throwing their samplers to the wind (mostly), Why? recorded live as a five-piece. By the time the core trio returned to Oakland (where Thee More Shallows' D. Kessler engineered a final session), they'd amassed their most immediate and cohesive batch of songs to date.Alternative Rock Music CDs
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