Oaklandazulasylum

by WHY?

Oaklandazulasylum cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 16 June 2003
  • Label: Anticon
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 38:28
  • Community rating: 3.51/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Operating primarily from a 4-track recorder, Yoni Wolf's official solo debut is a fascinatingly fractured collage of confessional poetry and warped folk. The charmingly lo-fi production splices acoustic guitar fragments with obscure samples and wildly unconventional hip-hop phrasing.

Genres

Descriptors: lo-fi, existential, rap, underground, experimental, personal

Tracklist

  1. Ferriswheel (2:24)
  2. Cold Lunch (Albert Brown Mortiary Dumpster Dive Remix) (1:36)
  3. Afterschool America (1:19)
  4. Our Neighbor's Daughter (1:44)
  5. A Little Titanic (3:32)
  6. Weak Moon (2:14)
  7. Early Whitney (4:03)
  8. Dream On Cortelyou (2:55)
  9. Women Eye, "NO." (1:32)
  10. Dirty Glass (3:27)
  11. Shirtless, Sheetless, And (1:59)
  12. Bad Entropy (5:02)
  13. Seventeen (2:33)
  14. Ape In Cage With Wire Cutters (4:08)

Credits

  • WHY? - primary artist
  • Josiah Wolf - bass
  • Odd Nosdam - sounds [samples]
  • Early Dissmissal - guitar
  • Alexander Kort - cello

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