Eskimo Snow

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Eskimo Snow
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Studio album by Why?
Released September 22, 2009 (2009-09-22)
Recorded 2007
Genre Indie rock
Length35:40
Label Anticon
Producer
Why? chronology
Almost Live from Eli's Live Room
(2008)		Eskimo Snow
(2009)		 Sod in the Seed
(2012)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 76/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [2]
The A.V. Club B- [3]
Clash 8/10 [4]
Drowned in Sound 7/10 [5]
Exclaim! favorable [6]
Pitchfork Media 6.9/10 [7]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [8]
The Skinny Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Slant Magazine Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [10]
XLR8R 8/10 [11]

Eskimo Snow is the third studio album by American indie rock band Why?. [12] Recorded in February 2007, [13] it was released on September 22, 2009 by Anticon. [8]

Why? (American band) American band

Why? is an American alternative hip hop and indie rock band. The band was founded in 2004 by Cincinnati rapper and singer Yoni Wolf, who had been using Why? as his stage name since 1997. In addition to Wolf, who serves as lead vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, the band consists of multi-instrumentalists and backing vocalists Doug McDiarmid and Matt Meldon, and drummer and backing vocalist Josiah Wolf, who is Yoni Wolf's older brother.

Anticon record label

Anticon is an independent record label based in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1998 by seven musicians and manager Baillie Parker. It is now collectively owned among six musicians, co-founder Parker, and manager Shaun Koplow. The original musicians signed to Anticon were once referred to as the Anticon collective.

Contents

When asked to compare it to his previous albums, Yoni Wolf described it as "a bit more wild, and the drums have more room mics. They're more open. The sound is more open, more live ... This record, Eskimo Snow, is really the least hip-hop out of anything I've ever been involved with. I mean, they feel like song-songs with-- I don't want to say a typical verse-chorus structure, but they're song-songs." [14]

Yoni Wolf American musician

Jonathan Avram "Yoni" Wolf is an American alternative hip hop and indie rock musician and co-founder of the record label Anticon.

Reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Eskimo Snow received an average score of 76% based on 17 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [1]

Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media products: films, TV shows, music albums, video games, and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged. Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts in 1999. The site provides an excerpt from each review and hyperlinks to its source. A color of green, yellow or red summarizes the critics' recommendations. It has been described as the video game industry's "premier" review aggregator.

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."These Hands" Jonathan Wolf 1:47
2."January Twenty Something"Jonathan Wolf2:24
3."Against Me"Jonathan Wolf5:12
4."Even the Good Wood Gone"Doug McDiarmid, Jonathan Wolf, Josiah Wolf 4:19
5."Into the Shadows of My Embrace"Jonathan Wolf4:35
6."One Rose"Doug McDiarmid, Jonathan Wolf, Josiah Wolf3:53
7."On Rose Walk, Insomniac"Jonathan Wolf2:08
8."Berkeley by Hearseback"Doug McDiarmid, Matt Meldon, Jonathan Wolf, Josiah Wolf3:40
9."This Blackest Purse"Doug McDiarmid, Jonathan Wolf5:16
10."Eskimo Snow"Jonathan Wolf2:29

Charts

ChartPeak
position
Heatseekers Albums [15] 20
Independent Albums [16] 44

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References

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  2. ↑ Brown, Marisa. "Eskimo Snow - Why?". AllMusic . Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  3. ↑ Mincher, Chris (September 29, 2009). "Why?: Eskimo Snow". The A.V. Club . Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  4. ↑ Jones, Francis (October 2, 2009). "Why? - Eskimo Snow". Clash . Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  5. ↑ Slater, Luke (October 5, 2009). "Why? - Eskimo Snow". Drowned in Sound . Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  6. ↑ Hughes, Josiah (September 22, 2009). "Why? - Eskimo Snow". Exclaim! . Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  7. ↑ Cohen, Ian (September 25, 2009). "WHY?: Eskimo Snow". Pitchfork Media . Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  8. 1 2 Britt, Thomas (October 1, 2009). "Why?: Eskimo Snow". PopMatters . Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  9. ↑ Buckle, Chris (September 18, 2009). "WHY? - Eskimo Snow". The Skinny . Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  10. ↑ McBee, Wilson (September 22, 2009). "Why?: Eskimo Snow". Slant Magazine . Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  11. ↑ Reynaldo, Shawn (September 22, 2009). "WHY? - Eskimo Snow". XLR8R . Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  12. ↑ Grandy, Eric (September 22, 2009). "Why? - Eskimo Snow". The Stranger . Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  13. ↑ Breihan, Tom (May 29, 2009). "WHY?'s Yoni Wolf Reveals New Album: Eskimo Snow". Pitchfork Media . Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  14. ↑ Breihan, Tom (July 21, 2009). "WHY? Reveal Album Details, Tour". Pitchfork Media . Retrieved July 22, 2009.
  15. ↑ "Why? - Chart history - Heatseekers Albums". Billboard . Retrieved May 19, 2016.
  16. ↑ "Why? - Chart history - Independent Albums". Billboard . Retrieved May 19, 2016.
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