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Why?
Also Playing: Au and Dark Dark Dark
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Phoebe Streblow
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Tue Oct 6
8:30 pm
Why?, Au, and Dark Dark Dark at Memorial Union Rathskeller
Yoni Wolf's voice has often preceded his band Why?'s music like a cowcatcher precedes a train, dividing listeners with mopey nasal slouching and elaborately jumbled lyrics. Yet over time it's developed a more natural relationship with Why?'s increasingly well-orchestrated and wondrous sound—by this point, it's actually a non-backhanded compliment to suggest that Why? could work just as well as an instrumental-rock band. The new Eskimo Snow is a softer companion to last year's balanced Alopecia, containing even fewer hints of Wolf's ties to underground hip-hop. His vocal delivery still speaks to Why?'s admirably genuine weirdness, but nudges almost gently against Eskimo Snow's chilly yet sympathetic drafts of piano, bells, and vibraphone.
Memorial Union Rathskeller 800 Langdon St, Madison, WI
Yoni Wolf's voice has often preceded his band Why?'s music like a cowcatcher precedes a train, dividing listeners with mopey nasal slouching and elaborately jumbled lyrics. Yet over time it's developed a more natural relationship with Why?'s increasingly well-orchestrated and wondrous sound—by this point, it's actually a non-backhanded compliment to suggest that Why? could work just as well as an instrumental-rock band. The new Eskimo Snow is a softer companion to last year's balanced Alopecia, containing even fewer hints of Wolf's ties to underground hip-hop. His vocal delivery still speaks to Why?'s admirably genuine weirdness, but nudges almost gently against Eskimo Snow's chilly yet sympathetic drafts of piano, bells, and vibraphone.
Updated 03/06/2012
