Why? - "These Hands/January Twenty Something"

When Why? (now a band and not just the moniker of lead singer Yoni Wolf) released Alopecia early last year, they not only released one of the year's better albums but also took themselves out of the underground rap/indie scene and into the, well, indie scene. The album perfectly blended Wolf's zany, tongue-in-cheek raps with a completely textbook indie background; and the results were great. So when September brought around the release of the followup, Eskimo Snow, expectations were somewhat high, and the results, although good, were not Alopecia good. Instead, Why? seemed to focus more of the rock/pop aspect. Here is a good example of the album as a whole with the video for the album's first two tracks "These Hands" and "January Twenty Something." The video starts out promising with a weird hero-like scenario but things transform into merely a "oh, that's what the band looks like" video. Good tracks and good album (even if it's not Alopecia good).