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With their UK tour and long awaited fifth full length album ‘Mumps, etc’ out this Monday Oct 8th (City Slang/Anticon), Californian alternative hip hop heroes WHY? have uploaded a new video.
The clip accompanies their new single ‘Strawberries’, which was selected as The Guardian Guide’s best new track last week, and can be seen here:
Nipping at the heels of their eagerly devoured ‘Sod in the Seed EP’, ‘Mumps, etc’ is a meticulous work of morbid fascination and offbeat romanticism. Though there is a mysterious sickness (perhaps of the mind) that lurks about these thirteen songs, one might also imagine the title as describing the musically swole state of these three Midwestern men as they bring their sound into glisteningly buff focus.
Yoni Wolf, brother Josiah and Doug McDiarmid are in the pocket, the unbreakable rock core at the center of a spinning ball of sonic kaleidoscopie. And all the things we love about them are still true: the grinning sun-warped choruses, that jangly Western lope, those confessionals cut with wry wit and crude details, set dancing down the odd knots of complex poetic daisy chains. It's just that ... well, all of it sounds better than ever this time around.
As well as the official music video for ‘Strawberries’, WHY? front man Yoni Wolf recorded another video this week especially for those of us in and around London:
WHY? European tour dates:
The clip accompanies their new single ‘Strawberries’, which was selected as The Guardian Guide’s best new track last week, and can be seen here:
Nipping at the heels of their eagerly devoured ‘Sod in the Seed EP’, ‘Mumps, etc’ is a meticulous work of morbid fascination and offbeat romanticism. Though there is a mysterious sickness (perhaps of the mind) that lurks about these thirteen songs, one might also imagine the title as describing the musically swole state of these three Midwestern men as they bring their sound into glisteningly buff focus.
Yoni Wolf, brother Josiah and Doug McDiarmid are in the pocket, the unbreakable rock core at the center of a spinning ball of sonic kaleidoscopie. And all the things we love about them are still true: the grinning sun-warped choruses, that jangly Western lope, those confessionals cut with wry wit and crude details, set dancing down the odd knots of complex poetic daisy chains. It's just that ... well, all of it sounds better than ever this time around.
As well as the official music video for ‘Strawberries’, WHY? front man Yoni Wolf recorded another video this week especially for those of us in and around London:
WHY? European tour dates:
- 10.10. UK MANCHESTER - CENTRAL METHODIST CHURCH
- 11.10. UK BRISTOL - FLEECE
- 12.10. UK GLASGOW - SWG3
- 13.10. UK OXFORD - THE BULINGTON
- 15.10. DE BERLIN – VOLKSBUEHNE
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