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Why? - Sod in the Seed

Review by Darren Loucaides

A career-spanning sound that sticks two fingers up at the notion of linear time by embodying all incarnations of the band at once.»

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city slang is he new european home for california's alternative hip hop sensation: why?. 'sod in the seed' is a 6 track 100 copies limited edition 12". 'sod in the seed' is a scion of the why? to come. sure, there's familiarity to glom to: psych-warped sunshine choruses, folksy jangle, internally knotted rhyme schemes, confessionals cut with wry wit and crude details. but these new songs also signify a general toughening up: yoni wolf, josiah wolf and doug mcdiarmid in the pocket, the unbreakable rock core at the center of a spinning ball of sound.
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