WHY? is releasing their fourth album Eskimo Snow on September 20th -- with a batch of creatively-overloaded tracks, just as they "roll up" a joint (ha!) with Themselves, a little national love to our Northern neighbors, "Canada" (right click here).

Here's the information on the collaboration: Both groups go back to seminal language and noise UG lords cLOUDDEAD, and has all members of both groups on the track, with vocals from son of book editor and rabbi Yoni Wolf (the main vision of WHY?) and Doseone from Themselves. The latter is dropping CrownsDown after making impressions with its mix tape shenanigans earlier this year.

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Alias returns to the solid brick foundation of his skill, crafting smoothelectro and acoustic beats so good he doesn't need any lyrics.

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You don't remember the hooks while you're trying to sleep, and if pressed you probably wouldn't recommend this album to the casual music lover, but Pretty Swell Explode is its own kind of musical gem, rough and inconspicuously pleasing.

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All I know is that they're fun, they're flippant, and they know how to write a pop song...

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The band's strength is in creating an atmosphere of sound, drawing you in from the first note and not letting up.

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