Judging by the amount of mails, it seems some of you were listening to myself on Phantom yesterday where I reviewed Why?’s Alopecia. Glad some of you are into it too. It’s my favourite album of the year so far. Here’s the video for ‘Song of the Sad Assasin’ (via egoeccentric).
Why? play St. Andrew’s Lane Theatre on April 26th. Sadly, I may missed them that weekend but I am thinking of heading to Primavera in May so I may catch them there.

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They feel a bit like cLOUDEAD without the fantastically odd samples and beats. Kind of like they’re them after going off the boil.
The singer was in cLOUDDEAD!
That might explain it then 🙂
Since hearing you on the radio I’ve downloaded the album, listened to it about 5 times, bought a ticket for the gig and decided that either alopecia or the cloud cult record is the best thing I’ve heard all year.
im listenin to it now for the 2nd time eatin a bangers and mash breakfast blastin the tunes out to the ballymany flats brigade!