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Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?

Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? is the second and final studio album by Canadian indie rock band the Unicorns. It features several re-arranged versions of songs from their earlier self-released album Unicorns Are People Too. The album was first issued on CD and on vinyl in North America by Alien8 Recordings on October 21, 2003, and on CD in Europe by Rough Trade Records in 2004. It has since been repressed in limited quantities on pink and brown vinyl by Alien8 and was re-released on August 26, 2014 on the band's own label, Caterpillar Records.[1]

Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?

October 21, 2003

June – July 2003

Indie rock, indie pop, lo-fi

41:03

Alien8, Rough Trade

Mark Lawson

The album received positive reviews both upon its release and in retrospective analyses, and it has been considered to be one of the best Canadian indie rock albums of all time.[2]

In popular culture[edit]

The album was briefly featured in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother in the episode "Girls Versus Suits".[17][18]

and Alden "Ginger" Penner – vocals, drums, synthesizers, percussion, drum machine, toy piano, toy organ, echoplex, guitar, bass guitar, tape, recorder, glockenspiel, accordion

Nick "Neil Diamonds" Thorburn

– drums ("Tuff Ghost", "Jellybones", "I Was Born (A Unicorn)", "Inoculate the Innocuous", and "Les Os")

Jaime "J'amie Tambeur" Thompson

– vocals ("I Was Born (A Unicorn)")

Brendan Reed

– trumpet ("I Don't Wanna Die"); bowed bass on ("Sea Ghost"); additional recording assistance

Richard Reed Parry

Joellen Housego – ("Tuff Luff"); violin ("Let's Get Known")

fiddle

Randy Peters – ("Tuff Luff"); clarinet ("Let's Get Known")

penny whistle

Tim Kramer – ("Ready to Die")

cello

Maxime Pellisier – clarinet ("Child Star")

Deanna Fong – vocals ("Les Os")

Recorded, mixed, and produced by Mark Lawson.