Advanced Search Beta »
Basic Search Fields
Alopecia - Why?
  • Band Name: Why?
  • Record Label: Anticon
  • Release Date: Mar 11, 2008
Alopecia Image
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 31 Ratings

Your Score
10 out of 10
Rate this:
  • 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]
    All this publication's reviews
  3. RapReviews.com
    35
    For me personally their sound isn't progressive any more--it's regressive.

See all 21 Critic Reviews

User Reviews

Write a Review
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

See all 7 User Reviews

Recommended Products

  1. Eskimo Snow - Why?

    • Release Date: Sep 22, 2009
    Eskimo Snow Image

  2. Elephant Eyelash - Why?

    • Release Date: Oct 4, 2005
    Elephant Eyelash Image

  3. Bon Iver - Bon Iver

    • Release Date: Jun 21, 2011
    Bon Iver Image

Current Music Releases

Full List »
  1. Tago Mago [40th Anniversary Edition] - Can
    Metascore: 99
  2. Live in Europe 1967: Best of the Bootleg, Vol. 1 - Miles Davis
    Metascore: 99
  3. Siamese Dream [Deluxe Edition] - Smashing Pumpkins
    Metascore: 96
  4. The SMiLE Sessions - The Beach Boys
    Metascore: 96
  5. National Treasures: The Complete Singles - Manic Street Preachers
    Metascore: 95
  6. Achtung Baby [Super Deluxe] - U2
    Metascore: 93
  7. Some Girls [Deluxe Edition] - The Rolling Stones
    Metascore: 93
  8. Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down - Ry Cooder
    Metascore: 92
  9. Unto the Locust - Machine Head
    Metascore: 91
  10. Quadrophenia [The Director's Cut] - The Who
    Metascore: 90
  11. Rio [Live] - Keith Jarrett
    Metascore: 90
  12. What Were You Hoping For? - Van Hunt
    Metascore: 90
  13. Bitch Magnet - Bitch Magnet
    Metascore: 90
  14. Charity Starts at Home - Phonte
    Metascore: 89
  15. Nevermind [20th Anniversary Edition] - Nirvana
    Metascore: 89
  16. Young Man In America - Anais Mitchell
    Metascore: 88
  17. Journey of the Deep Sea Dweller, Vol. 1 - Drexciya
    Metascore: 88
  18. Bad as Me - Tom Waits
    Metascore: 88
  19. The Singles - Goldfrapp
    Metascore: 88
  20. Undun - The Roots
    Metascore: 88
All Current Music »