Eskimo Snow

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Eskimo Snow
Eskimosnow.jpg
Studio album by Why?
Released September 22, 2009 (2009-09-22)
Recorded February 2007
Genre Indie rock
Length 35:40
Label Anticon
Why? chronology
Almost Live from Eli's Live Room
(2008)Almost Live from Eli's Live Room2008		 Eskimo Snow
(2009)		 Sod in the Seed
(2012)Sod in the Seed2012
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 76/100[1]
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 3.5/5 stars[2]
The A.V. Club B-[3]
Clash 8/10[4]
Drowned in Sound 7/10[5]
Exclaim! favorable[6]
Pitchfork Media 6.9/10[7]
PopMatters 8/10 stars[8]
The Skinny 4/5 stars[9]
Slant Magazine 3.5/5 stars[10]
XLR8R 8/10[11]

Eskimo Snow is the third studio album by American indie rock band Why?.[12] Recorded in February 2007,[13] it was released on September 22, 2009 by Anticon.[8]

When asked to compare it to his previous albums, Yoni Wolf described it as "a bit more wild, and the drums have more room mics. They're more open. The sound is more open, more live ... This record, Eskimo Snow, is really the least hip-hop out of anything I've ever been involved with. I mean, they feel like song-songs with-- I don't want to say a typical verse-chorus structure, but they're song-songs."[14]

Reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Eskimo Snow received an average score of 76% based on 17 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[1]

Track listing

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "These Hands"   Jonathan Wolf 1:47
2. "January Twenty Something"   Jonathan Wolf 2:24
3. "Against Me"   Jonathan Wolf 5:12
4. "Even the Good Wood Gone"   Doug McDiarmid, Jonathan Wolf, Josiah Wolf 4:19
5. "Into the Shadows of My Embrace"   Jonathan Wolf 4:35
6. "One Rose"   Doug McDiarmid, Jonathan Wolf, Josiah Wolf 3:53
7. "On Rose Walk, Insomniac"   Jonathan Wolf 2:08
8. "Berkeley by Hearseback"   Doug McDiarmid, Matt Meldon, Jonathan Wolf, Josiah Wolf 3:40
9. "This Blackest Purse"   Doug McDiarmid, Jonathan Wolf 5:16
10. "Eskimo Snow"   Jonathan Wolf 2:29

Charts

Chart Peak
position
Heatseekers Albums[15] 20
Independent Albums[16] 44

References

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External links

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