Eskimo Snow is comprised of recordings taken from the same sessions as Why’s 2008 record, Alopecia. Though both albums were recorded in Minneapolis in Fe... more

Eskimo Snow is comprised of recordings taken from the same sessions as Why’s 2008 record, Alopecia. Though both albums were recorded in Minneapolis in February 2007, they both contain entirely different musical approaches. Eskimo Snow is more lyrically-introverted and damper-pedal-piano driven, with spacious sounding drums and a tighter indie-rock/Americana aesthetic. While the production style of Alopecia was spastic, kinetic and cut-up, Eskimo Snow reveals a more mature and focused Why? where the arrangements are open, vast and live-sounding. Yoni Wolf’s unmistakable wide-eyed and fearless croon poses more questions about life and mortality than there are answers for. On a resigned canvas of rolling piano, bass drum and plucked acoustics, he paints darkly funny and intimate revelations about his own compulsions and inadequacies, and challenges listeners to absorb something more candidly honest and solemn from Why? than previously ever heard.