''Moh Lhean'' is the fifth studio album by American band Why?. It was released by

Joyful Noise Recordings Joyful Noise Recordings is an independent record label from Indianapolis, Indiana. The label was founded in 2003 in Bloomington, Indiana by Karl Hofstetter, who also played drums on many of the label's first releases. Joyful Noise maintains an a ...

on March 3, 2017.

Critical reception

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, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, ''Moh Lhean'' received an average score of 79 based on 14 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Paul Carr of ''

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'' gave the album 8 stars out of 10, commenting that "As with the band's previous albums, it is exceptionally difficult to categorize their sound as it veers from psychedelia to folk to pop all with an undercurrent of hip-hop." Marcy Donelson of

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gave the album 4 stars out of 5, saying, "The project remains a creative burst of sounds, grooves, and stylized observation that's uniquely refreshing to those open to its quirky complexity."

Track listing

Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes. *

Yoni Wolf Jonathan Avram "Yoni" Wolf (born April 30, 1979) is an American alternative hip hop and indie rock musician and co-founder of the record label Anticon. From 1997 until 2004, Wolf released music under the stage name Why?. In 2004 he transferred t ...

– lead vocals, piano, keyboards, drums, percussion, production, mixing, artwork *

Josiah Wolf Josiah Wolf is a drummer and vocalist from Cincinnati, Ohio. He is best known as the drummer, percussionist, and backing vocalist of the indie rock band Why?, of which his brother Yoni is the lead vocalist. History Josiah Wolf has been a member ...

– drums, percussion, production, mixing * Doug McDiarmid – bass guitar, guitars, keyboards * Matt Meldon – guitars, slide guitar, ukulele * Ben Sloan – drums, percussion * Josh Fink – double bass * Liz Wolf – vocals * Molly Sullivan – vocals * Ofir Klemperor – synthesizers * Johnny Ruzsa – flutes * Aaron Weiss – vocals * Alex Cobb – ambience * Millie Mason – vocals, guitar * Genevieve Guimond – cello * Dave McDonnell – contra-alto clarinet, saxophone * CJ Boyd – double bass *

Ryan Lott Ryan Lott (born 1979) is an American musician. He founded the band Son Lux which has released five albums and four EPs. The band's most recent album ''Brighter Wounds'' appeared in February 2018, the preceding album ''Remedy'' appeared in May 20 ...

– vocals *

Pete Lyman Pete Lyman is a mastering engineer, and owner of Infrasonic Mastering, an audio and vinyl mastering studio with locations in Nashville, Tennessee, Los Angeles, California, and Oakland, California. He has mastered Grammy-award-winning and Grammy-no ...

– mastering * Scott Fredette – cover art * Chris Doddy – covert art * David Woodruff – layout design

Charts

References

External links

* {{Authority control 2017 albums Why? (American band) albums Joyful Noise Recordings albums