unicorns r.i.p?

Oh well. It think it was pretty inevitable, especially after their show at the Knitting Factory last year where that crazy roadie poured honey all over himself. They were smashing their guitarys, leaving the stage, and all about to kill each other.

Fuck. What a loss. Still, WWCOHWTG is in my top 10 since 2000.

http://www.the-unicorns.com

it seems to be up and running. maybe they just mean that their old web-site is dead. or maybe i'm just in denial. after all:

Nihilo sanctum estne? *tear*

I love these guys.

http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/11009.html

damn.

Huh?

these guys were excellent. it's a shame none of their post-unicorns projects ever touched the brilliance of "who will cut our hair when we're gone?"

slocki, u really dropped the ball, buddy

read this thread title a few times before noticing it was on ilm

god what if they'd actually been murdered and slocki P.I. had been on the case

think of their poor families, left wondering

Clues are and will be great, I think.

yeah the clues album is a wonderful treat, kind of like if the unicorns of "les os" was fleshed out into an entire band/album. also "let's get strong" is the best song he's ever written. it's weird how little press it's gotten, but i think this may be a result of alden's fame-fucking anarchist ways. like more got written about nick's sideprojects than this.

also here's a lonely clues thread i started a while ago.

+1 on that Clues record. So, so good.

Yes. The Clues record has been swiftly ascending the ranks of the year's favourites. Picking between Clues and Fever Ray @ popmontreal was difficult. Let's Get Strong is great, but it's all awesome, esp. that opening run of Haarp --> Remember Severed Head --> Approach the Throne.

Need to give this a few more spins. And probably post it in the Clues thread.

Vapours is also pretty good, mind you, although much more unassuming than Islands' first two outings.

Listening to 'Who Will Cut Our Hair..' again and every song still rules

yeah it's a rly good album

trying to think of other shit from approx. same time that sounded most unicorn-like — ??

for a while right after the band broke up i used to post on the 'secret unicorns forum', which had a lot of twee goths and, weirdly, Destroyer fans (i think that's actually what first got me listening to him!)

yeah really good album. I had a phase of listening to this and the Russian Futurists' 'Let's Get Ready to Crumble' a lot recently.

alden's new Baha'i project, HIDDEN WORDS, droppin soon

also, if any of you unicorns stans missed the totally totally great, underrated CLUES album, a couple years back - get on it.

Yeah that Clues record was really good.

Feel reunion time coming. I mean if DFA79 getting back together can be spun as an "event" I mean come on, damn that album was joyous ("Who Will Cut Our Hair...")

http://devonrecordclub.wordpress.com/2011/09/10/the-unicorns-who-will-cut-our-hair-when-were-gone-round-13-robs-choice/

I really like Islands (the first two albums anyway), but haven't quite understood this album, except for a few that I like a lot ("Sea Ghost" and "Jellybones" in particular). Someone help me 'get' it!

We used to play 'I Was Born...' a lot at parties, it's a real fun track to sing along to. Strangely I probably feel the same way about Islands as you do The Unicorns, haven't really ever got into anything other than 'Rough Gem'.
Personal fav cuts include 'Child Star', 'Tuff Ghost' and 'The Clap'.

On a side note, good news for UK (and I presume US) Spotify users - the reissue of the 'Who Will Cut Our Hair...' has created it's presence on Spotify :)

they're doing reunion shows coming up, I think

i can't believe i'm seeing the unicorns in a basketball arena tomorrow

unicorns r.i.p.?

uh yeah read yr bible

https://zapp.trakt.us/images/episodes/5674-1-18.jpg

and dan deacon for that matter

Guys. THE FUCKING UNICORNS ARE BACK TOGETHER. They're playing shows. HAS ANYONE SEEN THEM YET??