***The freshest whitecap in WET HAIR’s upward crashing wave swirls with lighter-than-air energy, born aloft on propellers of foam yet anchored to Earth with thunder-clap rhythms and SHAWN REED’s heady bellow. This Iowa City-based duo-cum-trio’s discography includes shared releases with Rene Hell, Naked on the Vague and Peaking Lights; on their second full length for De Stijl, Reed and drummer RYAN GARBES are joined by JUSTIN TYE, whose unique, melodic signature flies in formation but also peels off into flights that relate to the silk wheels of the synths, compliment them, guide them, support and distort and report to them.
LP $18.60
06/26/2012
CD $14.00
07/17/2012
***An amazing new pair of singles by this ever-evolving Iowa City kraut-pop duo-turned-trio. Packaged in a stunning full-color 22-page pro-printed art book of brand new works by WET HAIR main-men SHAWN REED and RYAN GARBES. Limited to 500 copies.
7" $17.25
04/19/2011
MP3 $1.98
05/10/2011
***BACK IN STOCK!!! When Iowa City freak-out free-rockers RACCOO-OO-OON called it quits last year it left a bummer scar in the Midwest underground scene. But time is a great healer, and so are new bands. So out of the ashes of the RAC pack comes WET HAIR, a synth-punk-trance duo composed of keyboardist/vocalizer SHAWN REED and keyboardist/drummer RYAN GARBES, and Dream is the band’s debut vinyl full-length after a series of increasingly shredding limited-edition cassettes on their own Night People label. Piling together an unlikely trash heap of Suicide-style drum machine beat-bops, zone-droned krautrock keys, and fucked up outsider crooning, the LP’s four tracks careen across a spectrum of moods and mangled melodies. Wet Hair’s cult electric annihilation has never gleamed with such razor-edged weirdness; this is their dream made real. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with artwork by Reed and Garbes, plus a pro-printed full-color 11x11 insert.
LP $13.75
03/30/2009