Live: Why?, Islington Academy, London
- Published in Live
If you too felt that Mumps. Etc. didn’t set the critical hype machine ablaze to the same degree as Why?'s 2008 opus Alopecia, tonight’s feverish show in London wouldn’t betray it. People here tonight adore the material, and inhabit every cloying syllable – throwing themselves behind each song with full commitment; even the wintery, songwriter turns from the awkwardly placed Eskimo Snow receive the full-blooded sing-along treatment.