This week's feature is an Iowa City experimental band, off the Iowa City Mission Creek Music & Literature Festival going on April 2-7, called Wet Hair—the best best band name I've seen in a while. I love the whole tight-shorts-on-percussion-organ getup: a Night-People record label guy and his friend, both from Racoo-oo-oon (a quieter, more atmospheric, psychedelic quartet that broke up in 2007), plus another friend from Goldendust (a fancier, bleeped-out, shoegazey group).
So what does Wet Hair sound like? A bit like Atlas Sound, Crystal Antlers, Indian Jewelry, and The Doors. But more importantly, their sound is unique even while calling up vibrations of the collective universe. It reminds me of a French New Wave film score, but it also breaks open with alms of bouncy bass guitar and dial-twisting—as if music itself could become unconscious and dream. It's ethereal yet rooted, sad yet raucous. It's Wet Hair.
Their latest album, Spill Into Atmosphere, came out in 2012. They have several LPs, each one quite different. (I recommend In Vogue Spirit, 2011) They're opening, along with Love Songs for Lonely Monsters, for Deerhoof at Mission Creek Festival.
Festival: Mission Creek Festival, Iowa City
Venue/Stage: The Mill
Date & Time: Sunday, April 7 9:00PM
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