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8.0
93743
8.0 |
Exclaim
A stellar album that serves as a portrait of the artist as a not-quite-so-young man who's still finding weird new ways to pose age-old questions
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8.0
93744
8.0 |
The Skinny
Keys and pianos prove especially important as seen on John Lennon-esque finale The Barely Blur making WHY?'s latest a dreamier affair, easy and pleasurable enough to get lost in
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8.0
93739
8.0 |
All Music
The project remains a creative burst of sounds, grooves, and stylized observation that's uniquely refreshing to those open to its quirky complexity
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8.0
93740
8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
It’s a thought-out piece of work; a collection of collaborating and competing daubs of colour across a blank canvas; a flock of sounds moving together as one, for one simple reason alone: to bring you joy
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8.0
93875
8.0 |
PopMatters
Everything feels effortless, and consequently more self-assured. This is not an artist probing some existentialist crisis, but an artist who has reconciled mortality with the act of living and getting on with it
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7.8
93742
7.8 |
Earbuddy
Yoni Wolf downplays his penchant for relating gross personal details in favor of more focused poetic expression
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7.7
93839
7.7 |
Pitchfork
Yoni Wolf's prog-rap project is rejuvenated, and Moh Lhean is a bracing, clear-eyed album that still sounds uniquely like WHY?
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7.5
93741
7.5 |
The 405
Moh Lhean sounds just as complete as any other WHY? record. This album is the mark of a man who knows where he is in life
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7.5
94222
7.5 |
The Quietus
The whole thing is sonically gorgeous. Rarely does this kind of imaginative, lushly arranged art-pop exist anymore
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7.0
93845
7.0 |
Under The Radar
For not being as sly or humorous as his past work, Moh Lhean recalls the confident one-two punch of Alopecia and Eskimo Snow
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7.0
93745
7.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Why?'s fifth record seems more of a sure-footing; a reminder that this band that at one point was so exciting, is still able to surprise and move you even a decade on from their crowning achievement
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6.0
93822
6.0 |
DIY
It mostly moves to the beat of its own
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6.0
94327
6.0 |
Mojo
Wolf's vision remains undimmed. Print edition only
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