The Unfortunate Heads are on longscale hiatus. If a rolling stone gathers no moss, the Unfortunate Heads are Stonehenge. They're like a chia-pet left out in the rain.
The band's brooding, lo-fi, melancholic debut, Maritime, was recorded with the original trio of singer, songwriter and guitarist Lance Sollock, upright bassist Thomas Bones, and drummer Trevor Doak Morgan, and sounds like it sailed in on a three-masted ship from another time.
Its 2nd LP, Come Be Light, was born out of foggy, midmorning walks through East Austin's Oakwood Cemetery and centers around themes of apparitions and the shadows and light where they might hide. A marked departure from the womb-like haze of its debut, Come Be Light is a full Technicolor journey through genres and structures that reveal a new layer of brilliance with each spin.
Sometime in the summer of 2007, U.H. recorded an EP in Houston at Dubland Studios, but the project was abandoned due to no good reason at all. The track list was something like: Calliope, Hollow of the Night, Summerlong, Raggle Taggle Gypsies, Solitary Witness, Surviving the Plague, Maritime. A couple of these tracks were rerecorded for April All Summer the following Spring. Someday, with lots of time and money, this EP will see the light of day.
April All Summer was released in the Fall of 2008, recorded mostly live in an olde bank building in Devine, Texas. This album features full band with Jeremy Erwin on keys, Dave Frank on drums, Justin Telepak on guitar, along with Thomas Bones on bass and Sollock on guitars and vocals. Aiming to emulate the dark, raw, jagged energy of Neil Young's Tonight's the Night, U.H. came away with something quite different which might best be left to the listener's private ruminations.
There is legend of another E.P. recorded in the Spring of 2009 in Lakehills, Texas, with Trevor Doak Morgan back on drums, Barry Keesey on keys, and, of course, Bones on bass and Sollock on everything else. Tracks include: Hazy Gloria, And It Didn't Even Bring Me Down, Sinewaves, Black Spade Wreath, Sick Pianos, and Merciproof. Again, no one knows what to do with this one, and some time has passed.
Where are the Unfortunate Heads now? Rumor has it, there is a new album in the works, but rumors can be so misconstrued. Who knows...
