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Eskimo Snow: The Best Thing Since Alopecia

Written by willshoob on Friday, 29 of May , 2009 at 1:02 pm

It was announced earlier today, that Yoni Wolf and Co. will be releasing a new album this fall. It’s hard to follow up the incredible Alopecia, but I trust Why? to deliver a stellar album. Lot’s of details were revealed in a Pitchfork interview, which you can find here. Here’s a little snippet from the interview:

Pitchfork: You haven’t rapped much in a long time, at least not regularly. Do you miss it at all?

YW: Well, I don’t set up that line, necessarily, between rapping and singing. I think that there’s so much gray area there. I mean, I’m influenced by lots of rap music and lots of other music. Even on a song where I might be using melodies and whatnot, I still might borrow a lot of phrasing from hip-hop styles. It’s not like it’s rap-rock or whatever, but it’s just kind of having that kind of sensibility as vocalist. I feel like I’ll always carry [hip-hop] with me because that was sort of the formative years of listening for me, my teenage years.

I don’t know. The stuff that I’ve been writing recently has been a little more intricate in rhyme scheme. Out of a couplet, being two lines, every word rhymes with a word in the next couplet, stuff like that. It’s just games I play with myself. Instead of doing crosswords or whatever, recently I’ll do stuff like that. So the next stuff may be more rap because it’s going to be hard to try to sing that stuff. But we’ll see. That being said, 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.

I only played chess once in my life and I lost.

Why?- A Sky For Shoeing Horses Under

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