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It’s been three years since Why? released any new material and after the softer, but nonetheless delightful sound of Eskimo Snow it’s great to hear Why? back on invigorating form and just as label defying as ever.
Sod in the Seed’s six track EP is a precursor to the Californian cult groups soon to be released album and sees Yoni Wolf and co peppering their output with everything you’ve never heard from both sides of the hemisphere. As usual they do it all with class and panache.
If Alopecia saw the band destroy the music scene’s reliability on neat, definite, meticulous categorisation then this sees the morbid men do it all over again and in a completely different way. They’re like The Flaming Lips on acid with a guy that can rap as the frontman, which does, granted, sound scary as hell, but then they also sound like The Shins and dreams, what I’m trying and failing to say here is that Why? sound like Why? and not much else which in this day and age means they deserve your attention.
“I make decent cash and I’m a minor star,” cracks Yoni Wolf on the title track which is packed with perfectly knotted rhymes about the whining first world, it’s a catchy dialogue on the state of things cut with dry observations, “Who am I to judge a man’s heart by his yacht wear?” While they don’t completely eschew their Anticon beginnings on the darker ‘Shag Carpet’ which sees Wolf preaching his dastardly thoughts, “Even if I beg for relations you should try to only keep me as a distant acquaintance,” even here they cleverly work a chorus in making them never anything short of the most accessible clever band going.
There’s none of that faux intellectualisation going on, tracks like ‘Twenty Seven’ are just excellently executed pieces of composition and what’s even better is it always sounds simple, it sounds like it was written for Sesame Street or on it. ‘For Someone’ is a festival of sound as placating drum rhythms swiftly morph into a sea breeze of keyboards and back again punctuated by xylophone chimes.
Sod in the Seed is a sign of all the new delights to come, but there’s also familiarities here as the folksy jangle mixes with warped sunshine choruses and the crudely detailed free flowing rhyme. There is though one thing that ties all of Why?’s releases together; they’re just as difficult to criticise as they are to define.
Listen to:
Sod in the Seed’s six track EP is a precursor to the Californian cult groups soon to be released album and sees Yoni Wolf and co peppering their output with everything you’ve never heard from both sides of the hemisphere. As usual they do it all with class and panache.
If Alopecia saw the band destroy the music scene’s reliability on neat, definite, meticulous categorisation then this sees the morbid men do it all over again and in a completely different way. They’re like The Flaming Lips on acid with a guy that can rap as the frontman, which does, granted, sound scary as hell, but then they also sound like The Shins and dreams, what I’m trying and failing to say here is that Why? sound like Why? and not much else which in this day and age means they deserve your attention.
“I make decent cash and I’m a minor star,” cracks Yoni Wolf on the title track which is packed with perfectly knotted rhymes about the whining first world, it’s a catchy dialogue on the state of things cut with dry observations, “Who am I to judge a man’s heart by his yacht wear?” While they don’t completely eschew their Anticon beginnings on the darker ‘Shag Carpet’ which sees Wolf preaching his dastardly thoughts, “Even if I beg for relations you should try to only keep me as a distant acquaintance,” even here they cleverly work a chorus in making them never anything short of the most accessible clever band going.
WATCH // 'Sod in the Seed'
There’s none of that faux intellectualisation going on, tracks like ‘Twenty Seven’ are just excellently executed pieces of composition and what’s even better is it always sounds simple, it sounds like it was written for Sesame Street or on it. ‘For Someone’ is a festival of sound as placating drum rhythms swiftly morph into a sea breeze of keyboards and back again punctuated by xylophone chimes.
Sod in the Seed is a sign of all the new delights to come, but there’s also familiarities here as the folksy jangle mixes with warped sunshine choruses and the crudely detailed free flowing rhyme. There is though one thing that ties all of Why?’s releases together; they’re just as difficult to criticise as they are to define.
Sod in the Seed is out August 13th
Listen to:
- Sod in the Seed
- Probable Cause
- Shag Carpet
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