Alopecia
by WHY?
- Type: Album
- Released: 11 March 2008
- Label: Anticon, Tomlab
- Country: United States
- Length: 45:09
- Community rating: 3.81/5 from 11 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Yoni Wolf's masterpiece blends indie rock instrumentation with nasal, rapid-fire rapping. 'Alopecia' is lyrically dense, darkly funny, and uncomfortably personal, dealing with illness and insecurity. It is a genre-defying cult classic of the late 2000s.
Genres
Descriptors: literary, wordplay, stream-of-consciousness, lo-fi, idiosyncratic, rap, underground, experimental, melodic, emotive
Tracklist
- The Vowels, Pt. 2 (04:06)
- Good Friday (03:49)
- These Few Presidents (03:04)
- The Hollows (03:54)
- Song of the Sad Assassin (04:12)
- Gnashville (03:48)
- Fatalist Palmistry (03:53)
- The Fall of Mr. Fifths (03:25)
- Brook & Waxing (02:34)
- A Sky for Shoeing Horses Under (02:28)
- Twenty Eight (00:44)
- Simeon鈥檚 Dilemma (03:32)
- By Torpedo or Crohn鈥檚 (04:03)
- Exegesis (01:37)
Credits
- The Pony - artwork
- Sam Keener - layout
- Mike Wells - mastered by
- Eli Crews - mixed by
- The Wolf Bros. - mixed by
- Adam Drucker - performer [additional]
- Andrew McDiarmid - performer [additional]
- Deborah Ranker - performer [additional]
- Dee Kesler - performer [additional]
- Jeffrey Logan - performer [additional]
- Jeremy Ylvisaker - performer [additional]
- Liz Hodson - performer [additional]
- Nedelle Torrisi - performer [additional]
- Odd Nosdam - performer [additional]
- Paul Flynn - performer [additional]
- Andrew Broder - performer [midwest secret society for the terminally underwhelmed and dissatisfied's year-end shortlist runner-up appreciators group of eastern minnesota and southwest ohio]
- Doug McDiarmid - performer [midwest secret society for the terminally underwhelmed and dissatisfied's year-end shortlist runner-up appreciators group of eastern minnesota and southwest ohio]
- Josiah Wolf - performer [midwest secret society for the terminally underwhelmed and dissatisfied's year-end shortlist runner-up appreciators group of eastern minnesota and southwest ohio]
- Mark Erickson - performer [midwest secret society for the terminally underwhelmed and dissatisfied's year-end shortlist runner-up appreciators group of eastern minnesota and southwest ohio]
- Yoni Wolf - performer [midwest secret society for the terminally underwhelmed and dissatisfied's year-end shortlist runner-up appreciators group of eastern minnesota and southwest ohio]
- Tom Herbers - recorded by