Alopecia (album)

Alopecia
Studio album by WHY?
Released	March 11, 2008 (2008-03-11)
Genre	Indie rock, indie pop, alternative hip hop
Length	44:56
Label	anticon.
Producer	Yoni and Josiah Wolf
WHY? chronology
Elephant Eyelash (2005) Alopecia (2008) Eskimo Snow (2009)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic
AbsolutePunk.net	(83%)
Drowned in Sound	(9/10)
Pitchfork Media	(8.2/10)
The Skinny
The Stranger
Tiny Mix Tapes	(4.5/5)

Alopecia is the third full-length studio album by American indie group WHY?. It was released on March 11, 2008 by anticon. It is the first WHY? album to feature Mark Erickson and Andrew Broder of Fog. Before the release of the album, the band requested that fans would send pictures of their palms in order to feature them in the cover art of the album.^{[citation needed]}

Track listing

1. "The Vowels, Pt. 2" – 4:04
2. "Good Friday" – 3:50
3. "These Few Presidents" – 3:04
4. "The Hollows" – 3:55
5. "Song of the Sad Assassin" – 4:13
6. "Gnashville" – 3:49
7. "Fatalist Palmistry" – 3:53
8. "The Fall of Mr. Fifths" – 3:16
9. "Brook & Waxing" – 2:35
10. "A Sky for Shoeing Horses Under" – 2:29
11. "Twenty Eight" – 0:44
12. "Simeon's Dilemma" – 3:33
13. "By Torpedo or Crohn's" – 4:04
14. "Exegesis" – 1:37

Personnel

• Jonathan "Yoni" Wolf
• Josiah Wolf
• Doug McDiarmid
• Andrew Broder
• Mark Erickson

Additional performers include Doseone, Jel, Odd Nosdam, Nedelle Torrisi, Paul Flynn, Liz Hodson, Andrew McDiarmid, Deborah Ranker, and Jeremy Ylvisaker

External links

• Why? on Myspace
• anticon.com