Elephant Eyelash

1. Crushed Bones

2. Yo Yo Bye Bye

3. Rubber Traits

4. Hoofs

5. Fall Saddles

6. Gemini (Birthday Song)

7. Waterfalls

8. Sand Dollars

9. Speech Bubbles

10. Whispers into the Other

11. Act Five

12. Light Leaves

Tracks:

Crushed Bones
Yo Yo Bye Bye
Rubber Traits
Hoofs
Fall Saddles
Gemini (Birthday Song)
Waterfalls
Sand Dollars
Speech Bubbles
Whispers into the Other
Act Five
Light Leaves

Customer Reviews:

These Guys Know What They're Doing.......2006-07-15

I bought the Why? album after listening to 'Rubber Traits' and expected another enjoyable album that the music could be compared to a standard band like Modest Mouse or the stereotypical straight-up indie/psychedelic band. But I started to realize that Why? was different. The album was incredible. They combine rock, hip-hop, psych, and even little traces of folk withen their music. No songs on the album are alike, each with it's own twist of of a musical style. But it's all good, if you like one song you'll like the whole album. Their lyrics can be humourous (Very little bands have lyrics involving DQ Blizzards, White Castle, and cut coffee sobers) and yet insightful lyrics that will pick you up and take you on a crazy, yet beautiful journey throught the world of Why?

This is a keeper. Elephant Eyelash is for anyone and everyone. This is a great buy from a band of ingenious, interesting guys.

Why? branches out.......2006-04-15

For this effort and on the equally dope EP Sanddollars,Why? took it upon himself to add more members, without changing the name on his recordings. So essentially, Why? is now Josiah and Yoni Wolf, along with a host of other performers playing instruments and such. But Why? is also Yoni's stage name as it appears on prior recordings along with his work on Clouddead and Reaching Quiet, Hymie's Basement....Why, Why??? its confusing, but a spectacular hybrid of indie rock-hip-hop which is really quite enchanting and spectacular. An awesome work.

Trip-rock mess with your head goodness.......2006-03-18

The important thing to mention about his CD is that (aside from being a bit indie-pop'ish ) you haven't heard anything like it. This is true for almost all of anticon's releases.

Buy this CD and if you don't like it at first, listen to it about 5 more times. Like mentioned in a previous review, the imagery created by the bizarre metaphors and personification is amazing, and it keeps you listening.

Hear-hear for rock CD of the year!

The lyrics are a step beyond.......2006-02-17

There is real poetry on this record. Yes the lyrics are "weird" and not always narrative in form, but the associations and images they create are unique and satisfying. By forcing seemingly incongruous images together, he creates a lanscape of imagery that grows larger and more detailed as your mind labors to draw connections between those images. Because of this, the record gets better with repeated listening. For those of you interested in a straight-forward example of lyrical brilliance, these are the opening words of the song Speech Bubbles:

The rain is millions of tiny speech bubbles unused
The collected breaths of mutes and all our silent
Exhallations where we should've put words
Or words we had no one to tell
Emptied from clouds, like clearing horns' spit valves
Coming back to us now to remind us what we meant to say
Or that we meant to say something

Of course, half of the effect is in this singer/rapper's delivery. The way he combines rhythm with vocabulary is something special, kids.

Musically, the band really sounds orchestrated, but not in a chamber rock or God Speed You Black Emperor way. In general, the sound comes off like spontaneous moments that were discovered in experimentation and then nailed down with precision through repeated rehearsal. A few songs have seemingly unrelated parts that get to you the same way that the imagery in the vocals does (a feeling that reminded me of how I learned to love Animal Collective songs). What takes you off guard at first quickly becomes an addiction.

For me this is 'the' rock album of 2005!.......2006-01-13

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You missed it! I've just checked out your `Best of
2005 in Music' list and you didn't even include Why?'s
Elephant Eyelash let alone place it at No.1 where it belongs.

This is to rock music in 2005 what The Beach Boys
Pet Sounds was in 1966. As a Limey I say - why can't British
groups do it? Be inventive/creative? while still being commercial?
The Beatles did it (progressed) - who does it now?

The American group Why? can. This album starts with
a rap track, but with a twist and a mite more melody than most
rap songs, though not lacking in any gritty street cred. It digs
with the best of them. But then it opens out into a malange
of sounds and lyrics that may remind you of Talking Heads,
and Brian Wilson, but most of all of The Mothers of Invention
circa 'We're Only in it for The Money'.

But we're not back in 1967, in case you're thinking 'retro'. This
is more cutting edge 2005/6 than Madonna or Beck or eminem
- in fact it's the sound of Rock'n'roll Future! I first heard this Why?
disc played on the new music BBC Radio 3 programme Mixing It
(give the guys credit). Where the Frank Zappa'ish 'Fall Saddles'
track - with it's weird sounds and changes - just blew me away.

The Mixing It guys compaired it to 'up market' Pavement.
If these comparisons don't whet your appitite for a listen -
- you'll be missing out...