Hearts and Unicorns

Infobox Album | Name = Hearts and Unicorns
Type = Album
Artist = Giant Drag


Released = September 13 2005 (U.S.)
February 27 2006 (UK)
Recorded = 2005
Genre = Indie rock
Length = 44:24
Label = Kickball Records
Producer = Giant Drag, Louis Castle, and James Barian
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:894tk6kxykrk link]
*"NME" (7/10) [http://www.nme.com/reviews/giant-drag/7869 link]
*Pitchfork (6.8/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/18324-hearts-and-unicorns 9/30/2005]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/giantdrag/albums/album/7600589/review/7674552/heart_and_unicorns 10/20/2005]
Last album = "Lemona"
(2005)
This album = "Hearts and Unicorns"
(2005)
Next album =

"Hearts and Unicorns" is the first full-length release by California indie-rock band Giant Drag. It was released September 13 2005 in the U.S. and February 27 2006 in the UK on Kickball Records.

Track listing

All songs written by Giant Drag, unless noted.
#"Kevin Is Gay" – 3:03
#"Cordial Invitation" – 2:59
#"This Isn't It" – 3:03
#"YFLMD" – 2:50
#"Pretty Little Neighbor" – 3:20
#"Blunt Picket Fence" – 2:50
#"High Friends in Places" – 3:10
#"You're Full of Shit (Check Out My Sweet Riffs)" – 2:46
#"Everything's Worse" – 2:59
#"My Dick Sux" – 3:48
#"Smashing" – 4:11
#"Slayer" (Joe Cardamone) – 5:00
#"Wicked Game" (UK bonus track, also available on the March 28, 2006 U.S. release)
#"Untitled" (hidden track, starts approx. 3:20 into track 14)

Trivia

* The song 'YFLMD' stands for 'You Fuck Like My Dad'
*Regarding "Kevin Is Gay", Hardy said: "Kevin is just a guy though, the song is nothing to do with him. But this guy, a friend of ours, hacked into our website, so it's a response to him. We posted up on there, 'Kevin, stop posting all this stupid crap on our website. Come and see us tomorrow when we'll be debuting our new song "Kevin is Gay"'. And the title just stuck." [http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/03/09/093103.php]
*Hardy said in an interview that the clip at the beginning of "Kevin Is Gay" is her imitating the sound of the shoryuken special move from the Street Fighter series of arcade games. [http://www.theredalert.com/features/giantdrag.htm]

External links

* [http://www.giantdrag.com Official Giant Drag website]
* [http://www.myspace.com/giantdrag Giant Drag] on MySpace
* [http://www.kickballrecords.com Kickball Records]
* [http://www.giantdrag.org Giant Drag fan site]