Why? - A Sky For Shoeing Horses UnderAlbum: Alopecia [2008]
Album: Eskimo Snow [2009]
the fact that frontman yoni wolf will alternate his nasally, sung vocals with spoken word pieces, a designation for their sound is rather hard to categorize. why? are not hip-hop, but they are also much more than indie rock or folk or whatever other genres are thrown at them, staying within those distinctions but also moving forward, looking outward, all the while remaining wonderfully accessible. this is especially apparent on "alopecia", the band's third full-length, which, while musically resting in the experimentally-tinged indie rock realm, explores as many other influences as it can touch without ever overextending its reach. it's all magically and awkwardly tied together by wolf's lyrics - detailed and odd and sometimes all too humanly crude - which find a way to be both extremely intimate and detached, simultaneously. as for the music, it's a lot of layered keyboards, guitars, and electric and organic percussion that always turns into something simultaneously melodic and distant. because they've quickly become one of my favourite bands, and because their show at lee's palace was arguably one of the toronto's best shows of 2010, and because of the song title "january twenty something", today is a double-shot monday.
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