The Unicorns
Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
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AMG Review of Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
Kenyon Hopkin
All Music GuideLike their moniker implies, the Unicorns are whimsical, riding in a mythical world of lo-fi experimental pop. The Montreal trio (with help from several friends) is strangely lovable and lovably strange, sort of like a lo-fi version of the Flaming Lips. Bookended with the titles "I Don't Wanna Die" and "Ready to Die" (which abruptly ends the album), Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? has some accessible moments, while balancing some ambitious ideas with synths, recorder, pennywhistle, and clarinet. "I Was Born (A Unicorn)" best sums up their mindset: "We're the unicorns/We're more than horses/We're the unicorns and we're people too." Add to that a trilogy of songs that somehow ties together something about ghosts and a song that critiques U.S. foreign policy and you've got an idea of the range here. Even if their shows supposedly involve puppets, homeless people, or fighting bandmembers, these unicorns are, for the most part, real.
Social Studies [Feature]
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Imagine the pre-Islands band The Unicorns in all their glory; that album, Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone. Now think of their triumphant return, matured a decade and now female-fronted. The songs are no longer bizarre and there’s been a complete turnaround when it comes to their accessibility to the general public. Imagine that, added with a newfound influence by, say, Fiery Furnaces,
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Clues Interview
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Canada’s reign of indie supremacy over this decade began in 2001 with the infectiously fun synth-pop of a little band called The Unicorns. After imploding following the release of their landmark album Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone?, two members of the mythical group founded and released three albums with Islands. Meanwhile, Alden…
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