Wet Hair - Dream

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5...according to our Brett on Wed 02 Sep, 2009.

Two reviews, two proper psych-outs! Now it's Wet Hair and their Dream LP on Not Not Fun I've got to blather about. Imagine a hodgepodge of krautrock, post-rock, Silver Apples, Suicide and The Crazy World of Arthur Brown and you'll probably be miles away but at least I fucking tried. That's the way we've got to do this stuff isn't it.. 'Put The Beastie Boys, Gary Glitter, a load of crack and your cat in a blender and give it to a motorcycle courier on his way to hell and you'll have some idea of what the new Kooks single sounds like!' Sometimes I think we should all just do total automatic writing, it'd be much more entertaining. Mad man shouting no mum no mum i want to go home why all this blaring noise it's all cosmic noisy and synths and chess and droney old synths and chess and mum.. Alright, maybe not. This is brilliant but the shouting man sounds weird and scares me like that Ludo Mich and Blood Stereo LP from a while back which was also great.

When Iowa City freak-out free-rockers Raccoo-oo-oon called it quits last year it left a bummer scar in the Midwest underground scene. But time is a great healer, and so are new bands. So out of the ashes of the RAC pack comes Wet Hair, a synth-punk-trance duo composed of keyboardist/vocalizer Shawn Reed and keyboardist/drummer Ryan Garbes, and Dream is the band’s debut vinyl full-length after a series of increasingly shredding limited-edition cassettes on their own Night People label. Piling together an unlikely trash heap of Suicide-style drum machine beat-bops, zone-droned krautrock keys, and fucked up outsider crooning, the LP’s four tracks careen across a spectrum of moods and mangled melodies. Recorded at Flat Black Studios by Luke Tweedy and mastered by Pete Swanson, Wet Hair’s cult electric annihilation has never gleamed with such razor-edged weirdness; this is their dream made real. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with artwork by Reed and Garbes, plus a pro-printed full-color 11x11 insert.

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