Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd
213.413.8200
This event has passed.
-
Why?
- When
-
Thursday Sep 4, 2008 (7pm)
- Where
-
- Price
-
$15 / $13 advance
- Links
California's genre-bending art-hop outfit Why? bring their deranged, poetic pop back to LA in support of their latest album, Alopecia. Frontman Yoni Wolf spits wordy diatribes that fall somewhere between the precise verses of his Anticon backpacker brethren and Stephen Malkmus' free-associative drawl. His band follows suit, shifting chameleon-like between hip-hop panoramas and indie-pop jangle. Alopecia is a masterpiece of hybridity, full of complex, upsetting songs — the sort of stuff that gives pigeonhole-happy music journalists nightmares. For the rest of us, it's a dark, bittersweet delight.
