Il primo indimenticato disco dei Why?

In 2004 Yoni Wolf enlisted his older brother Josiah, Doug McDiarmid and Matt Meldon and formed Why?. At this time he stopped using 'Why?' as his personal stage name. Why? released their debut album Elephant Eyelash in 2005. The album deviated considerably from the sound of Yoni Wolf's final project under the Why? moniker, the 2003 album Oaklandazulasylum, expanding to the sound of a full indie rock band. The group toured much of 2005 in support of the album as a four-piece. However, by the time of their May 2006 tour with Islands, the group had become a three-piece, because Matt Meldon moved to an island off the coast of Seattle to live with his girlfriend. In 2008, the group added bassist Austin Brown to their lineup, making them a four-piece once again. For their second album Alopecia, Why? asked the fans to contribute photographs of their palms for the album's artwork. They released "The Hollows" as the first single, with two different European and US versions, featuring remixes and covers by Boards of Canada, Xiu Xiu, Dntel, Half-handed Cloud, Dump and Islands. Alopecia was released in 2008 to very positive reviews. In 2009, Why? released their third album Eskimo Snow. The ten songs on the album were recorded during the Alopecia sessions and are described by Yoni Wolf as "the least hip-hop out of anything I've ever been involved with." On June 27, 2012, the band announced via Stereogum that they would be releasing their new EP Sod in the Seed on August 13th on City Slang. In the same article they premiered the title track. The song is more upbeat than any of the tracks on Eskimo Snow and contains rapping, which had been absent on the previous album. The band released their fourth album, Mumps, Etc. on October 9, 2012.