Wet Hair - Glass Fountain

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4...according to our Phil on Thu 17 Sep, 2009.

Wet Hair is something I used to have when I had hair. My only experience of hair these days is watching confusing ads with un necessary science in them designed to baffle the hapless viewer. Fortunately the band Wet Hair are something I can handle and they don't have confusing ads on telly (thankfully). So here's their 2nd LP on Not Not Fun 'Glass Fountain' which so far is as enjoyable as the first. Side one is a slow burning weird stomp with monged vocals, psych fuzzy organs and a mentalist attitude.The 2nd track is a completely different affair, gentle bouncy electronics not a million miles away from the likes of ISAN or something but with those tapped vocals spewing all of them. It's pretty insane gear. The rest of the albums follows in a similar pattern of weird moogy keyboards, some vintage sounding electronics and those nuts vocals. On grey vinyl thanks to Not Not Fun. It's well entertaining. Thank you Wet Hair.

One of NNF s total favorite active bands return with a second full-length (most of which was recorded during the same sessions that birthed their debut LP, Dream) and we are pleased as spiked fruit punch. The Reed/Garbes duo mainly sticks to their guns, mining the same post-Suicide art-trance vein they perfected on Dream, but with Glass Fountain there s an added emphasis on the disembodied, oscillator pop mode that Wet Hair often toy with. Fountain s five tracks include some of the band s simplest but catchiest songs ( Crucifix In The Waves, When The Right Time Comes, etc), mesmerizing organ melodies over plink-plonky vintage drum machines with weirdo soulful singing and outer space electronics, like an outsider-punk Silver Apples or something. Hard to say exactly what universe Wet Hair are operating in and that s probably part of why we love it so much. A killer record that gets better each spin. In jackets with art drawn and designed by the band, plus a pro-printed 11x11 insert. Edition of 600.

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