Alopecia - Why?
  • Band Name: Why?
  • Record Label: Anticon
  • Release Date: Mar 11, 2008
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 21 Critics What's this?

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Universal acclaim- based on 36 Ratings

  • Summary: The band returns with its latest album. With guests musicians Andrew Broder and Mark Erickson of Fog.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 21
  2. Negative: 1 out of 21
  1. 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. Why? are back with their most accessible record to date. [Spring 2008, p.85]
  3. 60
    Alopecia is another woozily layered, beguilingly fractured affair, driven by beats and samples. [May 2008, p.113]
  4. 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. 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
  2. BenK.
    10
    Not usually my style, but I can't stop listening. Gets more melancholic every time I play it.
  3. JamesM.
    8
    Excellent, although a bit hit and miss in my opinion.
  4. SinBad
    3
    81 for this crap? Man, the hipsters will latch onto any garbage.

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