Alopecia (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Alopecia
Type = studio
Artist = Why?


Released = start date|2008|3|11
Recorded =
Genre = alternative, abstract hip hop
Length = 44:56
Label = anticon.
Producer = The Wolf bros.
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:39fexzqjldte link]
*AbsolutePunk.net (83%) [http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=299141 link]
*Drowned in Sound rating-10|9 [http://drownedinsound.com/release/view/12968 link]
*Pitchfork Media (8.2/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/49137-alopecia link]
*The Skinny Rating|5|5 [http://www.theskinny.co.uk/article/41897-why-alopecia link]
*The Stranger Rating|4|5 [http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=526598 link]
*Tiny Mix Tapes (4.5/5) [http://www.tinymixtapes.com/WHY,5793 link]
Last album = "Elephant Eyelash"
(2005)
This album = "Alopecia"
(2008)
Next album =

"Alopecia" is the third full-length studio album by American indie artist/band Why?. It was released on March 11, 2008 by anticon. It is the first Why? album that features Mark Erickson and Andrew Broder of Fog.

Track listing

# "The Vowels, Pt. 2" – 4:04
# "Good Friday" – 3:50
# "These Few Presidents" – 3:04
# "The Hollows" – 3:55
# "Song of the Sad Assassin" – 4:13
# "Gnashville" – 3:49
# "Fatalist Palmistry" – 3:53
# "The Fall of Mr. Fifths" – 3:16
# "Brook & Waxing" – 2:35
# "A Sky for Shoeing Horses Under" – 2:29
# "Twenty Eight" – 0:44
# "Simeon's Dilemma" – 3:33
# "By Torpedo or Crohn's" – 4:04
# "Exegesis" – 1:37

Members

* Jonathan "Yoni" Wolf
* Josiah Wolf
* Doug McDiarmid
* Andrew Broder
* Mark Erickson

Trivia

Before the release of the album the band requested that fans would send pictures of their palms in order to feature them in the cover art of the album.

Links

*http://www.myspace.com/whyanticon
*http://www.anticon.com