For Eskimo Snow to live up to the standard set by last year’s Alopecia and 2005’s Elephant Eyelash would have been some kind of miracle. Those albums disintegrated genre lines and totally defied any sort of classification. The band’s fourth long-player is just as hard to fathom, but in a different way. The hard left turn from the intriguing, musically fresh trio that created Alopecia to the bland, uninspired indie-rock band that has recorded Eskimo Snow is downright baffling, and obviously, this record suffers because of it. Vocalist Yoni Wolf still brings his A-game lyrically, but delivery-wise, he just fails to be as interesting as he was on WHY?’s previous records. Spinning the band’s earlier discs and then turning to this wreck is like going from prime rib to dog food.
-Ian Baker
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