Tangents & The Times

I haven’t written about music in awhile but considering the fact blogging about them last year brought me personal, intrinsic infamy, I think this is a good time to address that…

Today is the release of WHY?’s new album, Eskimo Snow !

WHY's Eskimo Snow

Eskimo Snow, if you haven’t grabbed it yet, is a really beautiful album. It definitely continues down the path of departure from the group’s hip-hop roots, yet doesn’t fail to fulfill the hopes one has of Wolf & Company’s work: skillfully arranged, musically masterful, full of unequivocal lyrical truths of life.

& that’s what drew me to WHY? in the first place.
The “unequivocal lyrical truths of life”.
There is something about Yoni’s wordsmithery that makes you feel like you’re there with him. That it’s real life, not someone trying to sing a song as much as they are trying to tell you the way that it is. It plays honestly which lends itself to a sense of vulnerability with its culpability.
Honesty.
Vulnerability.
Culpability.
All things people hide from on a regular basis. People can’t even be honest with themselves most the time, they run from any possible exposure of raw emotion and barely ever turn their pointing fingers back at themselves.
These rarities that are encapsulated and embraced in WHY?’s music are a refuge I have gone to many times and am pleased to say that based upon my expectations (which are more often than not placed too high), Eskimo Snow delivers and I urge you all to purchase it.

Unless you’re going to be super pissed about how they’re not so hip-hoppy, which I understand but even then you should stop being an asshole and get the fucking album.

And those are the thoughts from the out of work music journalist I used to be before I was a self absorbed blogger with a penchant for make shift flasks.

Now, to promote the album, WHY? has a series of amazing videos for your enjoyment which if you haven’t seen yet, you totally live under a rock.
Or you just aren’t on the internet eight hours a day like some of us.
Here are the first three episodes for you:

Check out the rest of the series at Anticon’s Vimeo page.

LOS ANGELES:
Check out WHY? at the Echoplex on October 20th!