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 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