Why?’s 2008 album, Alopecia, was a masterpiece of alternative hip hop. Based on singer Yoni Wolf’s monotone voice and gymnastical wordplay, it showed the band taking a step forward with music that matched the ingenuity of the lyrics. Its follow-up, Eskimo Snow, misses the immediacy and progressiveness of its predecessor. Recorded at the same time as Alopecia, Eskimo Snow sounds like a collection of rightfully deleted B-sides.