VINYL FORMAT. Yoni Wolf and the gang actually recorded Eskimo Snow at the same time as Alopecia, at Minneapolis' Third Ear studio, with Fog's Andrew Broder and Mark Erickson rounding out a live quintet. The vision for two separate albums emerged on a snow-in night after a hot toddy or two. If Alopecia, however inexplicably, maintains a summer town, then Eskimo Snow captures the bite and resignation of the Midwestern winters with which these Cincinnati boys grew up.

Eskimo Snow presents a band uninhibited, but evermore accomplished at imbuing sound with mood. Rather than spit at death or threaten it with suicide, Wolf stops bucking against the inevitable. In the process, the band discovers a rich place within which their listeners can happily liv.