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Pre-order the debut 7” from Lafayette, Colorado’s Gauntlet Hair. Limited to 500 copies on clear/white “cloudy” vinyl, with cover art featuring the Gauntlet Hair compound. Will ship on or before June 8 release date. Download both tracks below, and grab the 7” here while they last.

DOWNLOAD:

Gauntlet Hair :: I Was Thinking…

Gauntlet Hair :: Our Scenery

PRESS:

“Particularly heart-melting is Gauntlet Hair’s “I Was Thinking,” which is five minutes of cascading guitar bliss and shivery echoing vocals that sound like the wind blowing through your hair down the open road. Someone needs to put it on a movie soundtrack immediately.”

—THE FADER

“…a snowball made of sunlight and wrapped in glass, floating in a hall of reverb. It probably also has a Cadbury Creme center, for all I know”

—STRATOSPHERING

“…delirious, fire-spewing stomper from this Denver-based avant-pop duo…an unstoppable melodic heart that beats like it just ran an Alaskan winter mile in short-shorts…”

—PITCHFORK

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Normally I’d add something, but other than I hoped the Gauntlet Hair Compound was more like this, I think it’s all pretty much covered here! Give a listen to “I Was Thinking”, as well as read up on some hilarious Gauntlet Hair Dickery HERE.

Also, the last Forest Family release sold out it roughly a week. So if you don’t want to miss out, I wouldn’t sit on it.

New Video: “I Was Thinking” by Gauntlet Hair (Non-Official) 

This non-official video by (.)(.) does a good job at crafting a relatively cohesive story out of found footage. Also, other than the creepy ginger chick dancing, it’s a pretty good time.

It also contains a few clips of monkeys on bicycles, which is also used in Evan Abeele’s video, as well as quite a few more non-official video’s easily found on You Tube.

So if you’re making a compilation video, just remember, monkeys on bikes are big right now.

(Via)

Daily Doses: Gauntlet Hair - “I Was Thinking…”

With all the posting I’ve been doing about Gauntlet Hair, it would be shame if anyone didn’t hear the most important thing about them, which is their music.

Recently I said about Delorean’s “Stay Close” that it was the first track to make me realize Summer was approaching. And if Delorean reflects the perfect Summer beach day, “I Was Thinking…” is the ideal track for the drive back.

Kicked back in your seat, leg up on the dashboard, hand hanging out window riding the air waves. Just tossing inside jokes around with your friends, and forgetting that there’s such a thing as tommorows.

So Gauntlet Hair removed their earlier blog post, and have posted a new one. Which leads me to believe the short lived, but hilarious, “Gauntlet Hair vs. The Band Name Review Committee” war will end with few to no casualties.

It also may mark the first time someone has apologized for using the term “wizard dick” in the “heat-of-the-moment”.

I love these guys.

Via Gauntlet Hair’s myspace blog:

“Apologies for the Wizard dick comment, etc. I think that heat-of-the-moment blogging session by Craig was aimed at the first version of the Pitchfork review which went a little something like

“Seriously, “Gauntlet Hair” conjures images of Renaissance Faires and Cousin Itt from “The Addams Family” more than it does anthemic avant-pop.”

Which was then shortly followed by this little treasure from Sound on the Sound.

“The idea of a band with the word Gauntlet in their title and Denver, Colorado jives poorly for me. Gauntlet Hair makes me think of wizards, warriors, and dwarves plowing through a unstoppable stream of howling orcs in glorious 8-bit pixelation.”.

No big deal… Both of these people had really pleasant things to say about our music in the second halves of their reviews and we are very grateful for them even taking the time to write about us. It’s just that we want our music to be taken seriously and thought those comments were sort of in the low-blow category. ….

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Lets talk about what Gauntlet Hair really means, though. ….

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The words Gauntlet Hair were first handed to my ear by a gentleman that worked at one of my favorite vintage shops in Chicago. I saw this beat-up copy of a Johnny Winter album for sale. On the back of it were several pictures of him in this crazy medieval garb with an insane looking bowl-cut? It was a dollar so I walked up to the counter to pay. The owner of the shop looks and it and says, “Oh Johnny Winter, this guy’s a freak, he has that gauntlet hair.” I had never heard those two words put together before and they were in such a great context of expression. I thought gauntlet hair equals freak, an oddity, cool. I took the album home and told Craig about what had transpired. The words resonated with the both of us. Since we had known each other our hairstyles were equally as intense along with our sense of fashion. We were constantly ridiculed over it throughout high school. It became a sort of bonding term of endearment between us. Gauntlet Hair is our own term for freedom of expression. What better name to title our musical project? ….

“Worst band name of the week” to you, meaningful to us.

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-Andy R. of Gauntlet Hair

Alright, I’ll admit I’m being a little bit inflammatory here.  This comment was not necessarily directed specifically at Pitchfork, but towards all people who:

“bash [Gauntlet Hair’s] name because you cant think of anything negative to say about the music.” 

But either way, if Pitchfork has a sense of humor, they’ll stick this quote right into their echo chamber.

Here’s how the whole thing went down: In a recent playlist review of Gauntlet Hair’s “I Was Thinking”, Pitchfork’s Ryan Schrieber wrote -  

“And the Worst Bandname of the Week award goes to… these guys! I don’t know what Gauntlet Hair is, but it sounds like something people used to get diagnosed with in the 1820s when the docs were more creative. Not a big deal— hey, you’ll remember it… ” (full post here)

In response Gauntlet Hair came back with the following via their myspace blog:

“The meaning behind ‘Gauntlet Hair’ doesnt even matter. Jump on the bandwagon and bash our name because you cant think of anything negative to say about the music. The fact is, we’re not even from Colorado…we’ve only been here 2 years. So, sorry that the words “Gauntlet” and “Hair” dont make you think of the mountains. That wasnt our aim when we came up with it in Chicago. To all the people that look past a name and write amazing reviews about the music we bust our asses to bring to you…thank you, from the bottom of our hearts. And to all the people that continue to get down on something they dont understand, you can suck our medieval, hairy, wizard dicks.” 

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And there you have it. If I remember correctly, the rules are that once the proverbial wizard dick has been thrown down, the only way to end this is with a d20 dice, a 4th generation D&D Rulebook, and a wicked good DM.