TALL DWARFS

Weeville

(Homestead) Used CD $5.00

From 1990, recorded “right at home, cloaked in duct tape and dust, dim buzz and rough performance,” notes Pitchfork. “Mostly just two guys and their guitars and whatever backdrops of fake percussion they could cobble together behind it all. Chris Knox and Alec Bathgate’s sharp, energetic pop is all the better for its lack of embellishment, and their homespun psychedelia is all the stranger and more intimate. “Breath” is raw, spooked psych-rock, joyously harmonized over two guitars and one drum ticking time. “Crawl” treads all the way over into Syd Barrett’s The Madcap Laughs territory. The songs around them bring in creaky keyboards and piano and devolve in any number of unexpected directions; the whole thing is covered in dirt and odd ideas.” Punched barcode