THE ONION FEATURES TINY HAIRS IN A.V. CLUB PICKS
07/19/2001

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The Onion
19-25 July 2001

A.V. Club: Picks: pg. 31

Tiny Hairs w/Pow!ers/Cozzolino: Mother Fool's, 8pm.
Tiny Hairs has a penchant for long songs with longer titles ("The Water has its Skin as Does the Sky," "The Sun behind you makes your ears look red"). "Songs" might be the wrong word to describe Tiny Hairs' minimalist improvisations, which combine the sound of traditional acoustic instruments with often-random electric noises - interrupting, say, a lovely violin melody with the sound of a short-wave radio transmission. It's spontaneous music without the frequently punishing atonality of free jazz, proving that experimental doesn't necessarily mean unlistenable.

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