Blog: Captain Obvious

New Wax Last year's Why? album Alopecia , for lack of better terminology , kicked my ass. It was the first I'd heard of Yoni Wolf and company's hip-hop infused art rock and it worked itself into my top ten albums of the year. Wolf's wordplay, which is, as far as I'm concerned, without comparison, is equal parts genius and untethered absurdity. Wolf still juggles poignant introspection with too-much-information lyricism. On "Into The Shadows Of My Embrace," Wolf goes from musing on the pangs of loneliness [...]

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