Why? and Themselves Tune!
September 1, 2009
The new Why? album will be here soooooon! And I for one, can’t wait! Last years ‘Alopecia’ album has meant Why? are the most listened to artist on my last.fm chart. And if that wasn’t enough, Themselves also have a new album on the way. There are few artists I count down the days to a new release (or at least the days to a leak – which I believe there’s a Why? one out there), but for these two, I’m close to starting an Anticon Advent Calender.
So anyway, Why? and Themselves have recorded a tune together for an, as yet, unreleased compilation.It’s called Canada:
I caught Why? in Andrews Lane Theatre last year and it was great. My only disappointment was the fact I arrived too late missing Crayonsmith AND getting a shitty standing place. So when Why? was returning to Andrews Lane a few months later, I was well chuffed to win tickets from MP3 Hugger. Only to find out it was the same night as a going away party for a friend in Donegal (who was leaving to live in Spain – but only to return two months later – Thanks Jay!). So, I’m bloody ecstatic at the chance of seeing Why? again, hopefully on tour with the new album. It’s the kinda stuff I wouldn’t expect to be pulled of well live, but oh so wrong. Somehow they got everything in live, perfectly. Just went on a wee trawl for live videos and it’s just reminded me how well they pull it off.
Like this, way stripped back – and love the video (day to night, eh?):
Some mega glock action on ‘Sky for Shoeing Horses Under’…
Alopecia was definitely a move to a more accessible sound after the likes of, the also brilliant but somewhat more ‘difficult’, Elephant Eyelash and Sanddollars. But Yoni seems to think the new album will be even more straight forward saying “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.”
The Blackest Purse is a track of the new album due out in September – and yup, it does seem a bit more ’straight’ but with good ol’Yonis strange a wonderful lyrics and phrasing. I do kinda hope it’s not all this ’striaght’ though I have to say.
