Alopecia is the third full-length studio album

Studio album

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 by American

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 indie

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 group WHY?. It was released on March 11, 2008 by anticon. It is the first WHY? album to feature Mark Erickson and Andrew Broder of Fog

Fog (band)

Fog is a band fronted by Andrew Broder, which includes members Mark Erickson and Tim Glenn. For most of their existence, material released by Fog had been produced largely by Broder alone, combining both traditionally performed instruments and turntable-derived samples, until the switch to a...

. Before the release of the album, the band requested that fans would send pictures of their palms in order to feature them in the cover art of the album.

Track listing

1. "The Vowels, Pt. 2" – 4:04
2. "Good Friday" – 3:50
3. "These Few Presidents" – 3:04
4. "The Hollows" – 3:55
5. "Song of the Sad Assassin" – 4:13
6. "Gnashville" – 3:49
7. "Fatalist Palmistry" – 3:53
8. "The Fall of Mr. Fifths" – 3:16
9. "Brook & Waxing" – 2:35
10. "A Sky for Shoeing Horses Under" – 2:29
11. "Twenty Eight" – 0:44
12. "Simeon's Dilemma" – 3:33
13. "By Torpedo or Crohn's" – 4:04
14. "Exegesis" – 1:37

Personnel

• Jonathan "Yoni" Wolf
• Josiah Wolf
• Doug McDiarmid
• Andrew Broder
• Mark Erickson

Additional performers include Doseone

Doseone

Adam Drucker, better known as Doseone , is an American MC, artist, and poet from Idaho. Dose is known for his nasal, high pitched, fast polyrhythmic rapping style and abstract lyrics. He often simultaneously performs synth, sampler, or keyboard on stage. His words tend to express upon topics of...

, Jel

Jel

Jel is a hip hop producer and rapper for the Anticon label. He is a part of the hip hop duo Themselves and is also heavily involved in the bands Subtle and 13 & God.-Style:...

, Odd Nosdam

Odd Nosdam

Odd Nosdam is a musician, DJ, artist, and co-founder and ex-art director of record label/collective Anticon.Nosdam was first noticed for the drone and warped pop of his former group cLOUDDEAD ; he has worked closely with Mike Patton on his Peeping Tom project and remixed tracks by a variety of...

, Nedelle Torrisi

Nedelle Torrisi

Nedelle Torrisi is an American musician who lives in Los Angeles, California.-Biography:Torrisi grew up studying classical violin and performing in musicals. Her mother is an ex-nun and pianist, while her father is an ex-priest and jazz drummer. Her brother is a clarinetist and neuroscientist...

, Paul Flynn, Liz Hodson, Andrew McDiarmid, Deborah Ranker, and Jeremy Ylvisaker

Jeremy Ylvisaker

Jeremy Ylvisaker is a Minneapolis-based musician. Ylvisaker fronts the band Alpha Consumer. He plays guitar in Andrew Bird's touring band band alongside fellow Minnesotans Dosh and Alpha Consumer bassist Mike Lewis....