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October 13, 2004
Martin Van Buren Bone
Unicorns - Haunted House
Sooooo. A little late with this post, my apologies. Ahem. For anyone who reads this site regularly, you probably already know (from other places) all about the Unicorns, where they're from, what they do, etc. But! Did you know they once played a show at a car wash, pre-Alien 8 hype-storm? They did indeed. The recording of that show was the first of the Unicorns' oeuvre that I had heard outside of the mp3s offered (Tuff Ghost and Les Os, two of the best tracks from WWCOHWWG) on A8's website, and 'Haunted House' was one of the songs they played that really stood out in my mind. So it was surprising to see that they hadn't recorded it or released it as a B-side for the debut LP (maybe that would have pushed the album too far in the horror-pop direction). It sounds like anything else from Who Will Cut Our Hair...: sparse guitar during the preface, clean vs. filtered vocals, keyboard swirl-outs + a lyrical journey into the whimsically macabre. A little bit sloppy, but it's unabashedly entertaining and effortlessly great. They're on tour again, apparently. Which, hey, it's about time. They've been off the road for like two weeks, those layabouts.
Posted by matt at October 13, 2004 04:46 PM