#547 The Unicorns - Unicorns are People Too

I loved Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone, but missed this pseudo-album of early tracks and alternate versions until now somehow.

If you're a hardcore Unicorns fan you'll find plenty to like here: the songs are even more frail, more glitchy, more weird, more square, all across the board. None of the versions of the WWCOHWWG tracks will make you miss their sister versions, but they provide a look into the creative process of one of the most quietly inventive bands of the 00's. They vary pretty greatly in relative quality: I Was Born A Unicorn is a sprightlier, wilder beast than the final version that's worth hearing in its own right, but Child Star is just a messier, mopier version of the album's messiest mopiest track.

Among the originals, I Do It is the frantic, nervous, brokedown highlight.

If you're not into The Unicorns, this is some tiny, skeletal batshit pop, music for toy robots to slit their wrists to, but just about the catchiest shit you'll ever hear that even remotely fits that category. Think Ween meets Guided By Voices and you've more or less got it 4/5