{"product_id":"moh-lhean","title":"Moh Lhean","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe final words sung on the sixth album by Why? are an apt place to begin: \"Hold on, what's going on?\" Because while there's much familiar about the oddly named \u003ci\u003eMoh Lhean\u003c\/i\u003e - mastermind Yoni Wolf's sour-sweet croon, his deadpan poet's drawl and ear for stunningly fluid psych-pop-folk-whatever arrangement - a great deal has changed in the four years that've passed since 2012's \u003ci\u003eMumps, Etc.\u003c\/i\u003e, an LP that honed the band's orchestral precision and self-deprecating swagger to a fine point. It's significant that this is the first fully home-recorded Why? album since the project's 2003 debut. Made mostly in Wolf's studio and co-produced by his brother Josiah, the result is obsessive, of course, but also intimate, and flush with warmth and looseness. But the biggest transformation is a bit subtler. After years of eying his world, in part, with a cynical squint, Wolf here learns a new mode. While \u003ci\u003eMoh Lhean\u003c\/i\u003e never stoops to outright optimism, it chronicles our hero finding peace in the unknowing, trading the wry smirk for a holy shrug, and looking past corporeal pain for something more cosmic and, rest assured, equally weird. A low tone opens the album on \u003ci\u003eThis Ole King\u003c\/i\u003e as acoustic pluck and upright bass form a Western bedrock beneath Wolf’s fragile voice. But as the song pushes on, the playing gets brighter and the vocal becomes a mantra-like hum inspired by Ali Farka Touré’s blues, before rolling into a second part rich with chiming keys and twisting harmony— Brian Wilson’s kaleidoscopic vision of pop. \u003ci\u003eMoh Lhean’s\u003c\/i\u003e gorgeously psychedelic closer, \u003ci\u003eThe Barely Blur\u003c\/i\u003e with Son Lux, puzzles over the nature of existence. But rather than leave us with the macabre chill of death, as many a Why? LP has, the song dissolves into the infinite—the sound of the Big Bang. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP+ - Limited Blue Vinyl with Download.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Joyful Noise","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50495052611915,"sku":"1004634","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/823b72ca-ab24-4cc4-9b57-faef256ab915_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727708915","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/moh-lhean","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}