Oaklandazulasylum

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Total Tracks: 14   Total Length: 38:29

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Elephant Eyelash

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If you have never heard this band before I would definitely recommend beginning with Elephant Eyelash and then, after really learning to appreciate their music's unique style, download Oaklandazulasylum. This CD is not an easy listen, especially if you are new to the band and it really can not even compare to Elephant Eyelash. However, still buy this album, go in with an uncritical eye, and get the most you can out of it... there are some catchy songs and some really great lyrics

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Another baffler from the Anticon collective, Why?’s Oaklandazulasylum has more to do with awkward oddball folk than underground hip-hop, despite the presence of pungent beats on a handful of tracks. If you can get past the clothespin-on-nose delivery — a cross between Big Bird and the wiry one from They Might Be Giants — and the constant up-and-down swoops and dives in which it’s delivered, the album has a certain sense of awkward, ramshackle charm that’s frequently unhinged and claustrophobic at once. Anticon followers will lap all of this up, for sure. Others will know to steer clear from it. Incidentally, the album gets the Sentridoh Tortoise Award for Horrifically Scrawled “Ha Ha We Don’t Care” Graphic Design. – Andy Kellman

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