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alopecia why album download Alopecia why album download. His name is proudly not a marketer's dream, but Sweden's Erik Mattiason , better known as the man behind the band Melpo Mene , is a dream of a songwriter and musician. Melpo Mene enjoyed a spike of indie blog love last year with the release of the gorgeous and delightful love song titled "I Adore You." Although many people know the song because it was featured on a popular Volvo TV commercial last year, most of them could not tell you who sang it. Nevertheless, the commercial helped fuel Mene's brush with fame. The song reminds me very much of another gorgeous song, "Such Great Heights" by Iron & Wine (one of my favorite artists). While some indie purists might cast Mene's music aside simply because it was featured in a popular television commercial, the fact is that Melpo Mene is one of the best indie singer and songwriters of our time. The proof is in the pudding. With rich, soothing vocal arrangements, Paul Westerburg-style melodies, pop, country and rock infusions, Melpo Mene created one of the best under-rated releases of 2008. His songs are sad, introspective, heart wrenching and purely delightful from start to finish. While "I Adore You" is a magnificent, even addictive, song that will likely be played years from now at high school reunions, it's surprising that the album which hosted the track - Bring The Lions Out - received such little praise, making it clearly one of the most overlooked albums of 2008. In fact, it could be one of the most under rated albums of the past decade. The album is a breath-taking accomplishment of magnificently composed and produced songs featuring piano, guitar, flutes and perfect percussions on songs like the endearing "We Were Kids" and the alt-indie psychopop of the dreamlike "Snakes and Lions". Melpo Mene's music oozes with rich choruses, breath-taking musicianship and tinges of electronica throughout. One intoxicating track after another easily makes Bring The Lions Out one of those must-have albums I sometimes recommend strongly. The song "Klick Klack Clock" sets out on a musical journey lush with layers of instruments and a driving melody reminiscent of chamber pop mixed with folk rock. On songs like "Under The Moon", Mene turns to a lo-fi country rock ballad with near-whisper vocals - think of Mojave 3 . In 2007, Mene released his stellar debut LP titled Holes (listen to featured songs below), a potent example of an artist that would become heard, if not by name, around the world. Fans of Sufjan Stevens, M. Ward, Bill Ricchini, Andrew Bird and other comparable contemporaries, are most likely to enjoy Melpo Mene's music. And, if you're like me, you'll find yourself going back to it again and again. It's frustrating when music this good doesn't receive the huge buzz it so much deserves. However, on the other hand, it's good, as alluded to above, because it's kind of like our little secret. But this is a secret we don't mind sharing with others: Melpo Mene is simply brilliant! "I Adore You" - Melpo Mene from Bring The Lions Out "Jedi" - Melpo Mene from Bring The Lions Out "Snakes and Lions" - Melpo Mene from Bring The Lions Out "Don't Save Me" - Melpo Mene from Holes (2007) "Wait Up" - Melpo Mene from Holes. Lyrics to "I Adore You" Lost in a daydream of blue And I feel so free And then It's like I fall from the sky Everything that I see is you And you should know that I'm Thinking about what you said When you held my hand. Now we are older and Things disappeared somehow And I was thinking that maybe We'd stand a better chance If we met today I find myself talking to sharks On my way to an island and still. I adore you I adore you I adore you. I was young I was old And we were in we were out I wanna see I wanna see it all I wanna die I wanna die Sweetheart sweetheart I thought I saw I thought I saw a light See it now see it now. Alopecia. Although Why? have often been considered an alternative rap group, and frontman Yoni Wolf a rapper, this is a designation based on their affiliation with avant hip-hop label anticon and the fact that Wolf will alternate his nasally, sung vocals with spoken word pieces, a designation based on the fact that the band is simply rather hard to categorize. Why? are not hip-hop, but they are also much more than indie rock or folk or whatever other genres are thrown at them, staying within those distinctions but also moving forward, looking outward, all while remaining esoterically accessible. This is especially apparent on Alopecia, the band's third full-length, which, while musically resting comfortably in the experimentally-tinged indie rock realm, explores as many other influences as it can touch without ever overextending its reach. It's all wonderfully, awkwardly tied together by Wolf's lyrics -- detailed and odd and sometimes all too humanly crude -- which find a way to be both extremely intimate and detached, simultaneously. "These Few Presidents" alludes to death, though it's probably about a break-up ("At your house the smell of our still living human bodies and oven gas"), "Simeon's Dilemma" is a warped take on a love song ("But I still hear your name in wedding bells/Will I look better or will I look the same rotting in Hell?), and "Good Friday" manages to discuss sex, the Silver Jews, loneliness, and R. Crumb, while beginning with the lines "If you grew up with white boys who only look at black and Puerto Rican porno/Because they want something their dad don't got, then you know where you're at." Wolf often approaches his words from a hip-hop standpoint, concentrating on internal rhyme and enjambment, but his intonation and delivery are pure indie rock. As is the band, who layer keyboards, guitars, and electric and organic percussion into something simultaneously melodic and distant, tuneful and difficult, songs that you want to sing along to but then have trouble enunciating the hook to "The Hollows," the first single ("This goes out to all my underdone, other-tongued lung-long frontmen/And all us Earth-growths; some planted, some pulled"). But that, in fact, is what makes Alopecia successful: it displays both crypticness and honesty, intellectualism and vulgarity in equal measure, challenging and placating its audience in the same drawn-out, undefined, nasally breath. THIS SITE HAS BEEN ARCHIVED AND CLOSED. Please join the conversation over on our new forums » If you really want to read this, try using The Internet Archive. Alopecia. Label: Tomlab Release Date: 10/03/2008. It’s initially about these few precedents . One, go way back. cLOUDDEAD were, no more, but nevertheless their significance ripples through modern hip-hop still, two albums – after a fashion – of skewed beats and thoughtful prose wedged into ill-sized spaces ‘tween hi-hat tickles and Odd Nosdam-spliced skitters. They didn’t fit any scene, they never ploughed paths well-travelled by so-called peers. Their uniqueness is assured, bronzed forever more by their 2004 split. A trio splintered: Yoni Wolf finding creative catharsis with Why? on a fulltime basis ever since. Two, Elephant Eyelash : Why?’s last album proper is rightly recognised as one of the finest of its release year, 2005. The first album crafted with a full-band set-up after Wolf’s solo endeavour of 2003 Oaklandazulasylum , it saw its lynchpin begin to attract attention from corners of the music press formerly unmoved by what was pitched on paper as hip-hop. Elephant Eyelash bore little similarity to anything approaching the conventional in said pigeonhole, instead fusing folk-styled arrangements with a rap attitude that clashed diary-pages prose with fantastical lyrical twists. It was like Eels gone wrong, less open-hearted but vulnerable nonetheless; a fascinating insight into an ambitious musician’s mindset that still feels fresh with each occasional listen. Three’s a doozie: Elliott Smith, Mark Everett (aforementioned ish , but allow it), Conor Oberst (not me but many)… these artists are canonised as masterful image-misers, capable of fully rendering an experience through words alone, drawing vivid pictures in the mind’s eye. They’re all up there on pedestals personal, around the world; time’s right for another to join them methinks, and with Alopecia Yoni Wolf has delivered a record perfectly comparable with any so-called best of the collected reference artists listed a few words ago. A collection of songs that sometimes buckle under the weight of their own graphic natures, Why?’s third album is as absorbing an experience as any initiated admirer could have hoped for. Complete newcomers are going to have their heads spun. And off that tangent, to another; more focus for a brief few utterances. The facts: Alopecia sees the Why? band expanded from three to five with the addition of Andrew Broder and Mark Erickson of Fog; it was mostly recorded live in a Minneapolis studio; that moniker, for latecomers, is derived from Wolf’s old graffiti tag. Now I feel we’re on a level, you and I; I can delve deeper and you’ll follow, right? ‘Cause that’s the only way this piece is likely to go given the background’s established and the set-up’s readied for the money shot… scroll if you must, impatient some.