Elephant Eyelash does something the later albums fail to achieve I think, sitting there listening to the lyrics you can't help but feel like you're Yoni's best friend.. I feel very, I dunno, 'involved' with the music when I'm listening to it, it really draws you in and keeps you hooked.. of course that applies to some of the other albums but there's no way I can bring something like Oaklandazulasylum into the picture because that album is in a league of its own.

Sorry, my polling abilities fail.

What is that album like? I've been considering d/ling it for awhile.

Ahhh, WHY? back when it was basically just Yoni doing his thing. You really can't find anything more creative or weird in the rest of the WHY? discography, it's extremely glitchy and jumpy and not quite as conventional as the other albums.. but still highly recommended. Get it if you can.

awesome Yoni made music video for Afterschool America (see if you can spot Fog from the Hymie's Basment collab too ;)) :

Wow that song is amazing. I'm getting that album.

Fair.

My first exposure to this band was the album Alopecia which I'm still struggling to like. It's not that I didn't like it, but it just didn't wow me. There were some songs on it that I really liked so I decided to keep it and let it grow on me (Like what I've done with Immortal Technique and Nile). Eskimo Snow I've found already is a far more accessible and enjoyable album, enough to make me think about checking out this group's discography again. So yeah I'd say this is a good album :)

I just tapped into Elephant Eyelash- which is ****ing amazing. Alopecia never quite lived up to what I'd heard about it... It was good, but I prefer the stuff, er- less hip hop?- don't know how to describe it. The bridge in 'The Hoofs' has me hooked.

Eskimo Snow has been growing on me lately, partly I think, because I've been listening to it backwards and Eskimo Snow+This Blackest Purse is a crazy awesome opening to the album.

i wanna speak at an intimate decibel
with the precision of an infinite decimal

This rhyme is Yoni's hip hop pedigree showing, and the fact that it comes in the middle of some mournful piano pop only makes it sweeter.