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Oaklandazulasylum - Why?
  • Band Name: Why?
  • Record Label: anticon.
  • Release Date: Jun 24, 2003
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  1. ChelseaP
    Jul 27, 2003
    10
    This album is amazing, absolutely beautiful. I can't stop listening to it. It's comparable to many other projects, but also completely unique in many ways. If there was a rating higher than ten, I"d give it that.
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Metascore
70 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 8
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  1. Dusted Magazine
    80
    His melodies hang in the air, homespun like Saturday afternoon arts and crafts, creating a lush foreground that contrasts something lovely with his minimalist production. This latest holds to that formula, and improves upon it.
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  2. Pitchfork
    81
    From the first song it sounds rich and original.... It's as major a step as you'd expect-- really, as you'd demand-- from someone like Why?, not only for its sheer inventiveness, but the continuity that turns these lyrical snapshots into moving portraits.
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  3. Urb
    60
    A few of these tracks feel more like unfinished sketches than completed songs, but if it's sparse folk-noir you're after, why? delivers the goods. [Aug 2003, p.90]
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