Unravelled: 1981 – 2002 Tall Dwarfs SKU: MRG798LP Barcode: 0673855079813 120.00 £120.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Merge Records Released Date: 19th August 2022 Buying Format: 4LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Unravelled: 1981–2002 shines a loving light on lo-fi pioneers Tall Dwarfs, the prized New Zealand duo of Chris Knox and Alec Bathgate. The collection, available as a 4-LP box set, compiles songs from Tall Dwarfs’ two decades of recordings. The vinyl edition includes a 20-page collector’s booklet of photos, comics, posters, and other ephemera. The songs on Unravelled: 1981–2002 were curated by Alec Bathgate, who also designed the box set packaging; Chris Knox suffered a debilitating stroke in 2009 just as they had started work on a new album. The collection captures the different sides of the Tall Dwarfs in 55 songs. Though the band was an excuse for two good friends who lived in different cities to get together, drink beer, watch shitty old movies, and do some recording and drawing, Tall Dwarfs created music unlike anyone else. Capturing the initial excitement of creation and taking pride in what they did, Knox and Bathgate showed a whole generation of musicians what could be done at home on a 4-track and what magic could be made if you mixed pop melodies and hooks galore with homemade sounds. After a failed flirtation with success in their previous band Toy Love, Knox and Bathgate formed Tall Dwarfs in 1981, opting to record themselves on a 4-track reel-to-reel. New Zealand’s AudioCulture wrote of the duo’s project: “Early live performances were a ramshackle work in progress. Knox described them in an interview with American magazine Forced Exposure as ‘two minutes of song followed by five minutes of fucking around,’ and they dismayed many Toy Love fans—but the pair had no interest in a career spent in pubs cranking out ‘Pull Down the Shades.’” Tall Dwarfs was meant to be a one-off, but after the founding of their New Zealand label Flying Nun, they continued to record music for the next 21 years, releasing seven EPs and six albums. Their process was spontaneous, with songs being recorded as they were written. Typically, Bathgate would work up something on guitar while Knox provided vocals, lyrics, and tape loops. Then they added any sounds that seemed necessary to finish a song, using whatever was lying around: pans, chairs, baby rattles. Though Tall Dwarfs could be weird, they were never too experimental; Knox and Bathgate both loved melody too much (“Beatlesque” appeared more often than any other adjective in their reviews). Artist Tall Dwarfs Genre Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label Merge Records Buying Options 4LP Format 4LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Nothing's Going To Happen Luck Or Loveliness All My Hollowness To You Maybe Pictures On The Floor Clover Paul's Place The Brain That Wouldn't Die Walking Home Beauty Turning Brown And Torn In Two Crush Shade For Today Pretty Poison Carpetgrabber Sleet Burning Blue Woman (Live) Road And Hedgehog Attack Of The Munchies The Slide Waltz Of The Good Husband Cant Dog The Winner Bodies Sign The Dotted Line Rorschach Pirouette Wings Lowlands Oatmeal Think Small Life Is Strange We Bleed Love More 54 Entropy Bee To Honey Self-deluded Dreamboy (In A Mess) The Green, Green Grass Of Someone Else's Home The Severed Head Of Julio Two Minds Jesus The Beast Albumen Cruising With Cochran Fatty Fowl In Gravy Stew The Ugly Mire Of Deep Held Feelings Gluey, Gluey Round These Walls Room To Breathe Time To Wait Baby It's Over We Are The Chosen Few The Fatal Flaw Of The New Over The Hill Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo View Product Quick View Bryan's Magic Tears Vacuum Sealed Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Born Bad | 1LP Released 15th October 2021 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bryan's Magic Tears Vacuum Sealed £18.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Born Bad SKU: BB146LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 15th October 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Longings Dreams In Red Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Don Giovanni | 1LP Released 7th July 2023 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Longings Dreams In Red £21.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Don Giovanni SKU: LPDG217 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 7th July 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Eliza And The Bear Eliza And The Bear Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Capitol | 1LP Released 8th April 2016 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Eliza And The Bear Eliza And The Bear £15.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Capitol SKU: 00602547715975 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 8th April 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Kiran Leonard Deveraun Seraun Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Moshi Moshi | 1LP Released 15th September 2017 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Kiran Leonard Deveraun Seraun £20.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Moshi Moshi SKU: MOSHILP80 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 15th September 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Taking Back Sunday New Again Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Warner Bros | 1LP Released 2nd June 2017 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Taking Back Sunday New Again £16.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Warner Bros SKU: 0093624976127 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 2nd June 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Strobes Brokespeak Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Blood & Biscuits | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 18th November 2016 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Strobes Brokespeak £19.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Blood & Biscuits SKU: BSCTS037LP Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 18th November 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Imploders Imploders Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Static Shock | 1LP Released 4th August 2023 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Imploders Imploders £20.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Static Shock SKU: SSR099 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 4th August 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Area 11 Modern Synthesis Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Cooking Vinyl | 1LP Released 1st July 2016 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Area 11 Modern Synthesis £19.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Cooking Vinyl SKU: COOKLP648 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 1st July 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Stroppies, The The Stroppies Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Tough Love | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 20th March 2020 £13.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Stroppies, The The Stroppies £13.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Tough Love SKU: TLV108LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 20th March 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Pere Ubu Dub Housing Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Fire Records | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 26th April 2024 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Pere Ubu Dub Housing £23.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Fire Records SKU: FIRELP362 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 26th April 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Start again
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