Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
| Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? | ||||||||||
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| Studio album by The Unicorns | ||||||||||
| Released | 21 October 2003 (U.S.) | |||||||||
| Recorded | June – July 2003 | |||||||||
| Genre | Indie rock, indie pop, lo-fi | |||||||||
| Length | 41:03 | |||||||||
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Alien8 Recordings (U.S.) ALIENCD41Rough Trade |
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| Producer | Mark Lawson | |||||||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 77/100 |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Drowned in Sound | 9/10 |
| Mojo | |
| NME | 8/10 |
| Pitchfork Media | 8.9/10 |
| Tiny Mix Tapes | 4/5 |
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Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? is the sole studio album by the Canadian indie rock band the Unicorns. It features several re-arranged versions of songs from their earlier self-released CD Unicorns Are People Too. The album was first issued on CD and on vinyl in North America by Alien8 Recordings on 21 October 2003, and on CD in Europe by Rough Trade Records in 2004. It has since been repressed in limited quantities on pink and brown vinyl by Alien8 and was re-released on 26 August 2014 on the band's own label, Caterpillar Records.
The album received positive reviews both upon its release and in retrospective analyses, and it has been considered to be one of the best Canadian indie rock albums of all time.
All tracks written by the Unicorns.
Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? was reissued on 26 August 2014 to coincide with the band's brief reunion tour, ten years after their initial split. It features new artwork and includes four bonus tracks which are all previously unreleased other than "Evacuate the Vacuous" which appeared on The Unicorns: 2014. "Rocket Ship" is a cover of a song by Daniel Johnston, which is rumoured to have been recorded for the 2004 tribute album The Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered.
The album received positive reviews. Shortly after its release, Eric Carr of Pitchfork wrote that "even at their goofiest, The Unicorns' level of comfort with their material-- and the obvious confidence that engenders-- makes it all seem totally natural and new". After its 2014 re-issue, Pitchfork's Stuart Berman called it "messy and often brilliant", writing that the album is "too complex to be classified as garage-rock, too unsettled to be psychedelic, too hooky to be described as art-damaged, and too fiercely funky to lapse into twee solipsism".
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