AOKOHIO

Yoni Wolf and his band switch up their approach with bite-sized songs, a visual album, and an uncharacteristic focus on the past.

Yoni drops his sometimes coy, sometimes inscrutable persona of the past in order to let us in on a period of anxious self-reflection.

There is nostalgia throughout Why?'s new album AOKOHIO, but not just the misty-eyed kind.

Sometime in the early oughts, I was doing what I often did back then: dig through bargain bins for music.