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Alopecia - Why?
  • Band Name: Why?
  • Record Label: Anticon
  • Release Date: Mar 11, 2008
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Metascore
76 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 21 Critics What's this?

User Score
8.8 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 32 Ratings

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  • Summary: The band returns with its latest album. With guests musicians Andrew Broder and Mark Erickson of Fog.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 21
  3. Negative: 1 out of 21
  1. Drowned In Sound
    90
    There's nothing else like this out there that's as perfectly realised as this, and to draw upon previous, albeit indirect precedents, that leaves only one outcome from this unruly verbiage.
  2. Uncut
    60
    Alopecia is another woozily layered, beguilingly fractured affair, driven by beats and samples. [May 2008, p.113]
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  3. RapReviews.com
    35
    For me personally their sound isn't progressive any more--it's regressive.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
  1. Smushbag
    10
    Alopecia: Stands out in my mind as one of my favorite albums of all time. Cryptic, funny melodic and diverse. And a lot of fun to rap along to when you know the words. The fall of mr.fifths is my top played in my itunes, which, in my humble opinion says quite a lot. Criminally overlooked.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. BenK.
    10
    Not usually my style, but I can't stop listening. Gets more melancholic every time I play it.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. SinBad
    3
    81 for this crap? Man, the hipsters will latch onto any garbage.
    • 0 of 1 users said yes

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