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Hearts and Unicorns is the debut studio album by the American indie rock band Giant Drag. It was released September 13, 2005 in the U.S. and February 27, 2006 in the UK on Kickball Records.

Hearts and Unicorns
Studio album by Giant Drag
Released	September 13, 2005 (US) February 27, 2006 (UK)
Recorded	2005
Genre	Indie rock, alternative rock
Length	44:24
Label	Kickball
Producer	Giant Drag, Louis Castle and James Barian
Giant Drag chronology
Lemona (2005) Hearts and Unicorns (2005) Waking Up Is Hard to Do (2013)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
NME	[2]
Pitchfork Media	(6.8/10)[3]
Rolling Stone	[4]

Track listing

1. "Kevin Is Gay" – 3:03
2. "Cordial Invitation" – 2:59
3. "This Isn't It" – 3:03
4. "YFLMD" – 2:50
5. "Pretty Little Neighbor" – 3:20
6. "Blunt Picket Fence" – 2:50
7. "High Friends in Places" – 3:10
8. "You're Full of Shit (Check Out My Sweet Riffs)" – 2:46
9. "Everythings Worse" – 2:59
10. "My Dick Sux" – 3:48
11. "Smashing" – 4:11
12. "Slayer" – 5:00
13. "Wicked Game" (UK bonus track, also available on the March 28, 2006 U.S. release)
14. "Untitled" (hidden track, starts approx. 3:20 into track 14)

Critical reception

Jason Crock of Pitchfork awarded the album a 6.8 out of 10 rating, noting: "All these silly song titles and nearly frightening studio patter scratch the surface of something, the way the snippets on a record like Surfer Rosa add another layer of inscrutability, but monochromatic guitars overwhelm the album and mute the few moments of quirk."[3]

Sinéad Gleeson of The Irish Times awarded the album four out of five stars, comparing it favorably to the work of Throwing Muses, My Bloody Valentine, and Mazzy Star, noting that the songs "view the rubbish heap of modern life through a distorted, shoegazing lens. Hardy sings, chain-smokes, plays guitar and bass, and writes the cruel, damaged-goods lyrics."[5]

Trivia

• The title of the song 'YFLMD' is an acronym for 'You Fuck Like My Dad'
• Regarding "Kevin Is Gay", Annie Hardy said: "Kevin is just a guy though, the song is nothing to do with him. But this guy, a friend of ours, hacked into our website, so it's a response to him. We posted up on there, 'Kevin, stop posting all this stupid crap on our website. Come and see us tomorrow when we'll be debuting our new song "Kevin is Gay"'. And the title just stuck."
• Hardy said in an interview that the clip at the beginning of "Kevin Is Gay" is her imitating the sound of the shoryuken special move from the Street Fighter series of arcade games.

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