You’ll never quite remember your first time seeing Totally Unicorn live – chalk it down to intoxication, or all the crowd-surfers’ boots you’ll cop to the noggin – but there’ll always be a lingering sense that it was one of the best goddamn sets you’ve ever seen a band play. And you’ll be right: infectious is the sheer visceral intensity of frontman Drew Gardner, both vocally and in his movement, thrashing around the stage (and in the crowd) like Satan himself is trying to burst free from his stomach. Mesmerising is Aaron Streatfeild, battering away at his fretboard on grisly, guttural riffs like his strings owe him money – not to say the least about his and drummer Adam Myers’ pure disregard for traditional time signatures.
For their – crafted in the time of COVID-19, when the prospects of taking to a stage were no less than dismal – Totally Unicorn took a step back and honed in more on how their songs sounded through headphones, rather than amp stacks. It’s something they’d always endeavoured to do, Streatfeild tells , but with more time, more money and more turmoil to mine for great songwriting, they were able to pull it off without a hitch.
