Oaklandazulasylum is the first full-length album from indie hip hop

Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...

 band WHY?. It was released by anticon. in the United States on June 16, 2003. The album was recorded over a period of two years by Jonathan "Yoni" Wolf, who used Why? as a solo project until 2005's Elephant Eyelash

Elephant Eyelash

Elephant Eyelash is the second studio album by the indie hip hop band WHY?. It was released by anticon in the United States on September 26, 2005. The album is the first LP to include the current members of the band, which originally consisted of only Jonathan "Yoni" Wolf...

when he enlisted his brother Josiah Wolf and Doug McDiarmid to join the band. The track "Early Whitney" also appeared on an EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 of the same name

Early Whitney

Early Whitney is an EP by WHY?, which at the time was the alias of Jonathan "Yoni" Wolf. Early Whitney was released by anticon. on October 6, 2003, four months after WHY?'s first full-length album Oaklandazulasylum. Early Whitney is musically similar to its predecessor...

 that was released shortly after Oaklandazulasylum.

Track listing

All tracks written by Jonathan "Yoni" Wolf, except as noted.

1. "Ferriswheel" – 2:24
2. "Cold Lunch (Albert Brown Mortuary Dumpster Dive Remix)" – 1:36
3. "Afterschool America" – 1:19
4. "Our Neighbor's Daughter" (Yoni Wolf, Jel
   Jel
   Jel is a hip hop producer and rapper for the Anticon label. He is a part of the hip hop duo Themselves and is also heavily involved in the bands Subtle and 13 & God.-Style:...
   
   ) – 1:44
5. "A Little Titanic" – 3:32
6. "Weak Moon" – 2:14
7. "Early Whitney" – 4:03
8. "Dream on Cortelyou" – 2:55
9. "Women Eye, 'No.'" – 1:32
10. "Dirty Glass" – 3:27
11. "Shirtless, Sheetless, And..." – 1:59
12. "Bad Entropy" – 5:02
13. "Seventeen" – 2:33
14. "Ape in Cage with Wire Cutters" – 4:08

Jel

Jel

Jel is a hip hop producer and rapper for the Anticon label. He is a part of the hip hop duo Themselves and is also heavily involved in the bands Subtle and 13 & God.-Style:...

 co-produced "Ferriswheel" and "Our Neighbor's Daughter".

Personnel

• Jonathan "Yoni" Wolf
• Josiah Wolf – bass on "Dirty Glass"
• Odd Nosdam
  Odd Nosdam
  Odd Nosdam is a musician, DJ, artist, and co-founder and ex-art director of record label/collective Anticon.Nosdam was first noticed for the drone and warped pop of his former group cLOUDDEAD ; he has worked closely with Mike Patton on his Peeping Tom project and remixed tracks by a variety of...
  
   – samples on "Dirty Glass"
• Dug – guitar on "Shirtless, Sheetless, And..."
• Alex Kort – cello on "Seventeen"
• Jel
  Jel
  Jel is a hip hop producer and rapper for the Anticon label. He is a part of the hip hop duo Themselves and is also heavily involved in the bands Subtle and 13 & God.-Style:...
  
  – drums on "Seventeen"