Foggy Notions presents
WHY? (Anticon/Tomlab)
Andrew’s Lane Theatre, April 26th, 2008
Very special guests: CRAYONSMITH
Tickets €13 from WAV, TICKETS.IE, Ticketmaster, City Discs & Road Recs
www.myspace.com/whyanticon
www.anticon.com
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 new 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.
Opening act CRAYONSMITH cite Why? as one of their primary influences, so it made perfect sense to take this opportunity to launch their second album, White Wonder. In February '07, the Dublin based group signed with long time friends Out On A Limb Records (who had previously released albums by Givemanakick and Waiting Room) based on a mutual respect for each other’s work and ethos. Directly following this signing, Ciaran did a solo Crayonsmith tour of the US West Coast and Canada playing with likes of Jason Lytle (Grandaddy), Casiotone For The Painfully Alone and Mt. Eerie.
White Wonder features catchy punchy songs made up of sampled beats and drum machines combined with live drums, duelling vocals and vintage synthesizers, guitars, bass, autoharp, toy piano, percussion, classic harmonies, found sounds/samplers and headphone interplay.
www.myspace.com/crayonsmith
WHY? (Anticon/Tomlab)
Andrew’s Lane Theatre, April 26th, 2008
Very special guests: CRAYONSMITH
Tickets €13 from WAV, TICKETS.IE, Ticketmaster, City Discs & Road Recs
www.myspace.com/whyanticon
www.anticon.com
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 new 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.
Opening act CRAYONSMITH cite Why? as one of their primary influences, so it made perfect sense to take this opportunity to launch their second album, White Wonder. In February '07, the Dublin based group signed with long time friends Out On A Limb Records (who had previously released albums by Givemanakick and Waiting Room) based on a mutual respect for each other’s work and ethos. Directly following this signing, Ciaran did a solo Crayonsmith tour of the US West Coast and Canada playing with likes of Jason Lytle (Grandaddy), Casiotone For The Painfully Alone and Mt. Eerie.
White Wonder features catchy punchy songs made up of sampled beats and drum machines combined with live drums, duelling vocals and vintage synthesizers, guitars, bass, autoharp, toy piano, percussion, classic harmonies, found sounds/samplers and headphone interplay.
www.myspace.com/crayonsmith
