Foggy Notions presents

WHY? (Anticon/Tomlab)

with very special guest Son Lux (Anticon)

Andrew's Lane Theatre, November 1st 2008
Tickets €16 from City Discs, Road, Tickets.ie, Ticketmaster, WAV

“The band creates a musical landscape so vivid that every cryptic line doesn't seem inscrutable, but more like puzzles worth unlocking…” – Pitchfork, 8.2

“There’s nothing else like this out there that’s as perfectly realized.” – Drowned in Sound

Following on from their Irish sell-out debut earlier this year, Why? return to Andrew’s Lane Theatre on Novermber 1st with Anticon label mate Son Lux in tow, making his debut Irish appearance with his stunning new album At War with Walls and Mazes.

WHY? is a folk-pop, indie-hop, sometimes-mustachioed, psych-rock quartet that operates out of the Oakland Bay Area under the bold banner of the Anticon collective. At the band's helm is Yoni, who with his candytime-dissonant, singsong-suicide style has recorded under the name "Why?" for the best part of six years. After meeting fellow Anticon tribesman Adam "Doseone" Drucker in art school and subsequently dropping out, Yoni developed his signature sound over several projects: the lo-fi thought-rap of Greenthink (with Doseone), the critically lauded dreamscape crunch of cLOUDDEAD (with Dose and Anticon DJ/producer Odd Nosdam), and the hushed bedroom aesthetic of Reaching Quiet (with Nosdam).

Why?'s latest album Alopecia finds the trio further realizing their distinct sound – smart, shimmering, sweetly soured – while expanding that ever crooking subsurface smile we saw bare its teeth on 2005's critically acclaimed Elephant Eyelash LP. Yoni writes and sings mainly, but he's also known to dance, play any instrument he can get his hands on (piano, keyboard, guitar, bass, drums, harmonica), sample, and occasionally beat his chest like a gorilla. Doug is the utility man, maneuvering such heavy machinery as pianos, guitars, samplers and turntables. Josiah plays drums, teaches drums to little kids, eats drums for breakfast, and sleeps drums at night. Despite Yoni's proclivity for rampant collaboration (he's worked with Hood, Fog, DJ Krush, Boom Bip, Sole, Dept. of Eagles, and 13+God), WHY? is, and will continue to be, his first love. The band counts among their admirers such respected gentlemen and ladies as Boards of Canada, Mum, Stereolab, Danielson Famile, the Notwist, TV on the Radio, and Mogwai.

www.myspace.com/whyanticon
www.anticon.com

SON LUX:
"Affecting, resonant, and engaging. There are lights in the darkness and a holy ghost in the Son Lux machine. The lyrical concerns of Sufjan Stevens circa Seven Swans, production techniques from Massive Attack, and the classical habits of Nico Muhly." –Pitchfork

“Son Lux is a name you'll being hearing a good deal more from in the near future...” - Boomkat

"Son Lux funnels classical know-how into profound modern art songs. Electronica, alt-hip-hop, chamberlike arrangements, spare piano pop and other diverse strains come together to form a striking, futuristic whole on At War with Walls & Mazes." - Time Out NY

Meet a man driven by music. A man classically trained, but rewired with his own two hands. A frequent collaborator, occasional curator and consummate “man behind the curtain” now emerging at the front of something yet unnamed. Somewhere between the concert hall and the club you’ll find his haunting liquid soundscapes, born of hip-hop composition, o’er-strung with chant, hinting at some divine unreachable.

Meet Son Lux.
www.myspace.com/sonlux