Why? grew up in Cincinnati playing kickball in the cul de sac and watching 8-bit Nintendo in his big brother s attic bedroom. The minor key melodies of religious music and the tight belt tight-laced shoes of his soft-spoken middle childhood in part provide the impetus for why s candy-time-dissonant singsong-suicide style. In addition to his membership in CLOUDDEAD and reaching quiet why? has collaborated with Hood Fog boombip jel and sole; he has toured the world twice performed two Peel Sessions under the CLOUDDEAD moniker and is admired by Boards of Canada Mum Stereolab Danielson Famile the Notwist and Mogwai. Why? s quirky production and infectious melodies are merely sugar coating for the contents of a young man with unbuttoned lips and a gut spitting words.