XVII

Whether grimacing through the frosty final days of winter or sweltering through the muggy, inner-bowels of summer, sitting in my bathtub with a lime popsicle and the shower turned on cold: the warmer (and much-too-warm) months have boded well for new music and I. Garage-band psych and surf rock, gauzily distorted dream-pop, synth-spangled mixes and remixes—the lot of them have served as a catalyst for inebriated beach-bumming, midnight pancake parties, and have fleshed out the most memorable (again, inebriated) events for yours truly. I have listened the shit out of these guys. So, while you get to sweatering it up, pulling out the funky-ass earmuffs and forlornly stashing your sunblock back in the medicine cabinet, enjoy slathering on a choice sampling of this year’s No Big Hair finds.

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1. Vacation Dad: “I’ll Always Find You”

• (0:01 – 4:12)
• from ZOIO (MJMJ Records; 2011)
• mjmjrecords.bandcamp.com

2. New Animal: “Nightmares of Candy Yang & the Black Italian”

• (4:13 – 8:41)
• from New Animal (Self-released; 2011)
• newanimal.bandcamp.com

3. Orval Carlos Sibelius: “I Don’t Want a Baby”

• (8:42 – 13:17)
• from Recovery Tapes (Clapping Music; 2011)
• http://clappingmusic.bandcamp.com

4. Algodon Egipcio: “Weird Feelings (Male Bonding cover)”

• (13:18 – 16:20)
• Single (2011)
• algodonegipcio.net

5. Yalls: “Runs in the Family”

• (16:21 – 19:12)
• from Rerepeater (Self-released; 2010)
• yalls.bandcamp.com

6. Summer Hearts: “Who Said Time Was All We Had”

• (19:13 – 23:03)
• from Never Let Me Go (Self-released; 2011)
• summerheart.bandcamp.com

7. Hunters: “Melting”

• (23:04 – 26:46)
• from Seizure – demo (Self-released; 2011)
• huntershunters.tumblr.com

8. Saskatchewan: “Dreamboat”

• (26:47 – 30:36)
• from Dreamboat (Self-released; 2011)
• saskatchewan.bandcamp.com

9. Radiator Girls: “Eerie Body”

• (30:37 – 33:54)
• from BLACK GIRLS (MJMJ; 2011)
• mjmjrecords.bandcamp.com

10. We Don’t Surf: “Surf’s Up”

• (33:55 – 37:35)
• from Not at the Beach (Self-released; 2011)
• wedontsurf.bandcamp.com

11. Bikini: “R.I.P. (Grimes remix)”

• (37:36 – 40:47)
• Single (Lefse; 2011)
• biikiinii.com

12. Blouse: “Into Black”

• (40:48 – 44:14)
• Single (Captured Tracks; 2011)
• blouseblouse.comd

13. Girl Unit: “Wut”

• (44:15 – 51:13)
• Single (Night Slugs; 2011)

14. Tearjerker: “Best”

• (51:14 – 55:29)
• from Strangers (Sore Thumb; 2011)

15. Sunglitters: “There (Stumbleine remix)”

• (55:30 – 59:33)
• Single (Self-released; 2011)
• sunglitters.bandcamp.com

16. Blackhawks: “More Rainbows (Spacemen 3 cover)”

• (59:34 – 64:33)
• Single (MJMJ; 2011)
• mjmjrecords.bandcamp.com