"Fixture" is Unicorns at Heart's debut single for Dangerbird Records' Microdose monthly music series.
"“Fixture” that sounds kind of like a meld of Mercury Rev, Grandaddy and Built To Spill. It’s a swaying indie-rock tune that never really reaches a massive climax, but rather grooves methodically for a few minutes while its melody worms its way into your head. The accompanying video is a montage of the band playing in various rooms that’s kaleidoscopically overdubbed with other pieces of random found footage; fish swimming, feet walking, and what looks to be closeups of microscopic organisms."
Get Alternative (
www.getalternative.com/video-premiere-unicorns-at-heart-fixture/)
-ELI ENIS
"“Fixture” appears to come and go with an unnoticeably quick ease. This sense of fluidity is predominant throughout every aspect of the track: its length, Rico Loredo’s swaying vocals, and the near absence of traditional structure in the song’s progression. Though the song contains three verses with semi-matching shorter phrases between them, “Fixture” doesn’t abide by a consistent rhyme scheme from one verse to the next. Additionally, the song’s melody isn’t aiming to reach a super defined, dynamic apex or create a singular aura of suspense and expectation of emotional relief."
American Songwriter (
americansongwriter.com/unicorns-at-heart-video-for-fixture/)
- KIRA GRUNENBERG
"The song is a buoyant, expansive indie-rocker reminiscent of bands like Built to Spill and the Shins, with a twinkling piano and a thicket of guitar framing the tune’s slyly opaque lyrics. “I can’t shake your hand when I am trembling,” Rico Loredo sings, fretting about his own insecurities."
Bazz Bands LA (
buzzbands.la/2020/03/06/ears-wide-open-unicorns-at-heart/)
-KEVIN BRONSON
"Fixture is Unicorns at Heart’s Dangerbird Records debut single for the Microdose series, a sprawling song of wiry guitar and bouncing piano. Somber melody brings calm before we’re met by the crashing chorus. You can check out the video clip for Fixture via YouTube below, which takes you through an alley into the bands practice space – the comfort of their garage."
-Culture Addicts (
cultureaddicts.com/unicorns-at-heart-join-dangerbird-records-microdose-series/)