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The Haircuts - Sorrow is the Way to Love

0 Comments Published by Trev Lostmusic on Tuesday, July 31, 2007 at 17:18.

Seeing as my Lostmusic site is going offline shortly (not sure exactly when) - I thought I would take the chance to repost this recent review of The Haircuts.

I picked this CD up a couple of months back. It is released on Yellow Mica Recordings - it's a rather wonderful indie pop record - with a lovingly lo-fi appeal. The band consist of two people Teresa and Ryan. Ryan is from the US, and Teresa is from canada. They have never met in person. All the songs were recorded with a 4-track cassette recorder, and the tapes then sent in the mail to be complete by the respective Haircut.

So, with this collaborative approach you might expect a disjointed affair - but that is far from the case "Sorrow is the Way to Love" is a rather beautiful record with deadpan male vocals and achingly thin (which are gorgeous because of it) female vocals - all put to a fuzzy pop backbeat. This is the type of sound that I fall for. Everytime.

The Haircuts have made an LP that clocks in at about 20 minutes long. 10 songs. A prefectly formed record. It says on their My Space that they have no plans to record 'together' again - but they haven't ruled it out. I, for one, hope they do record again. This is simply too good to be a one off.

The Haircuts on My Space

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