Eskimo Snow
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| Studio album by Why? | ||||
| Released | September 22, 2009 | |||
| Recorded | February 2007 | |||
| Genre | Indie rock | |||
| Length | 35:40 | |||
| Label | Anticon | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 76/100 |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    |
| The A.V. Club | B- |
| Clash | 8/10 |
| Drowned in Sound | 7/10 |
| Exclaim! | favorable |
| Pitchfork Media | 6.9/10 |
| PopMatters |   |
| The Skinny | |
| Slant Magazine | |
| XLR8R | 8/10 |
Eskimo Snow is the third studio album by American indie rock band Why?. Recorded in February 2007, it was released on September 22, 2009 by Anticon.
When asked to compare it to his previous albums, Yoni Wolf described it as "a bit more wild, and the drums have more room mics. They're more open. The sound is more open, more live ... This record, Eskimo Snow, is really the least hip-hop out of anything I've ever been involved with. I mean, they feel like song-songs with-- I don't want to say a typical verse-chorus structure, but they're song-songs."
At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Eskimo Snow received an average score of 76% based on 17 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
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