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Why - Alopecia
| Drownedinsound | It’s initially about these few precedents.
One, go way back. cLOUDDEAD were, no more, but nevertheless their significance ripples through modern hip-hop still, two albums – after a fashion – of skewed beats and thoughtful prose wedged into ill-sized spaces ‘tween hi-hat tickles and Odd Nosdam-spliced skitters. They didn’t fit any scene, they never ploughed paths well-travelled by so-called peers. Their uniqueness is assured, bronzed forever more by their 2004 split. A trio splintered: Yoni Wolf finding creative catharsis with Why? on a fulltime basis ever since....full text |
| | Tinymixtapes | | Picture it: a mass of energy is floating through space at an accelerated rate. The energy, when decoded by the complex circuitry of our ear canals, resembles something we recognize as musical notes. This energy, in a brilliant flash of nothing, seems to implode in on itself, wholly disappearing from the black void of space and time. It’s been sucked into the gravitational field of a black hole so immense that it dwarfs our very conception of enormity. This so-decoded musical energy is, seemingly, lost....full text |
| | Pitchforkmedia | | Eyebrows raised when Why? were chosen to support the Silver Jews on a 2005 tour, but that seemingly incongruous bill made more sense when considering one of Berman's better lines: "All my favorite singers couldn't sing." Likewise on Alopecia, Yoni Wolf doesn't seem to know he isn't a diva on "Simeon's Dilemma", that he isn't a New Pornographer on "Fatalist Palmistry", or that he's not a grizzled battle-rapper on "The Fall of Mr. Fifths", and he won't let any of it get in his way. He's got too much to say to be concerned about it....full text |
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