Alopecia (album)

Alopecia
Studio album by Why?
Released	March 11, 2008
Recorded	2007
Genre	Alternative hip hop, indie rock, indie pop
Length	44:56
Label	Anticon
Producer	Yoni Wolf, Josiah Wolf
Why? chronology
Rubber Traits EP (2005) Alopecia (2008) Almost Live from Eli's Live Room (2008)

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	76/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Drowned in Sound	9/10[3]
Pitchfork Media	8.2/10[4]
The Skinny	[5]
Slant Magazine	[6]
Spin	7/10[7]
The Stranger	[8]
Tiny Mix Tapes	[9]
Variety	favorable[10]
The Village Voice	favorable[11]

Alopecia is the second studio album by American rock band Why?. It was released on March 11, 2008 by Anticon.

Reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Alopecia received an average score of 76% based on 21 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".^[1]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Vowels, Pt. 2"	4:04
2.	"Good Friday"	3:50
3.	"These Few Presidents"	3:04
4.	"The Hollows"	3:55
5.	"Song of the Sad Assassin"	4:13
6.	"Gnashville"	3:49
7.	"Fatalist Palmistry"	3:53
8.	"The Fall of Mr. Fifths"	3:16
9.	"Brook & Waxing"	2:35
10.	"A Sky for Shoeing Horses Under"	2:29
11.	"Twenty Eight"	0:44
12.	"Simeon's Dilemma"	3:33
13.	"By Torpedo or Crohn's"	4:04
14.	"Exegesis"	1:37

Personnel

• Jonathan "Yoni" Wolf
• Josiah Wolf
• Doug McDiarmid
• Andrew Broder
• Mark Erickson

Additional performers include Doseone, Jel, Odd Nosdam, Nedelle Torrisi, Paul Flynn, Liz Hodson, Andrew McDiarmid, Deborah Ranker, and Jeremy Ylvisaker.

Charts

Chart	Peak position
Heatseekers Albums[12]	28

References

1. "Alopecia - Why?". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved March 14, 2015.
2. Brown, Marisa. "Why? - Alopecia". AllMusic. Retrieved March 14, 2015.
3. Diver, Mike (March 6, 2008). "Why? - Alopecia". Drowned in Sound. Retrieved March 14, 2015.
4. Crock, Jason (March 11, 2008). "WHY?: Alopecia". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved March 14, 2015.
5. Kerr, Dave (March 6, 2008). "WHY? - Alopecia". The Skinny. Retrieved March 14, 2015.
6. McBee, Wilson (March 12, 2008). "Why?: Alopecia". Slant Magazine. Retrieved March 14, 2015.
7. Zimmerman, Shannon (April 15, 2008). "Why?, 'Alopecia' (Anticon)". Spin. Retrieved March 14, 2015.
8. Grandy, Eric (March 6, 2008). "Album Reviews". The Stranger. Retrieved March 14, 2015.
9. Canino, Jeffrey. "WHY? - Alopecia". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved March 14, 2015.
10. Lewis, David (April 4, 2008). "Review: 'WHY? – 'Alopecia". Variety. Retrieved March 14, 2015.
11. Gewolb, Matt (March 11, 2008). "Why?'s Alopecia". The Village Voice. Retrieved March 14, 2015.
12. "Why? - Chart history - Heatseekers Albums". Billboard. Retrieved May 19, 2016.

External links

• Alopecia at Discogs (list of releases)