The Unicorns are a Canadian indie pop/lo-fi band formed in Montreal, known for a collage-like, low-fidelity approach to songwriting. Core members include Nicholas Thorburn (Nick Diamonds) and Alden Penner.

Formed in Montreal, Canada. Best-known release: Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? (2003). The band split in 2004 and briefly reunited in 2014, releasing The Unicorns: 2014. Their music is widely described as lo-fi, quirky indie pop with collage-like song structures.

DeBaser hosts two reviews of The Unicorns: a positive look at their 2003 album Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? and a mixed take on the 2014 EP. Reviewers emphasize the band's low-fidelity, collage-like song structures and quirky melodies. The overall reception is affectionate with some criticism.

For:Fans of lo-fi indie pop, experimental/quirky indie listeners, collectors of early-2000s indie releases.

 EP last act of the Unicorns. Their very low-fi and erratic pop patchwork is fully appreciated only in the first track “2014”: monolithic casio notes spread over a drum set that seems made of pots and pan lids, random bursts of hyper-distorted guitar adding some drive, and the voice that, with the same logic, is front and center one moment, and super-filtered in the background the next, always lazy and drawn-out.

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 I like to think of Unicorns during their pre-adolescence (what we would call "middle school") secretly throwing aspirin into the glasses of Coke prepared with so much love by the mother of the nerd who organized the party.

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