Merge Records

A deep dive into the 21-year journey of New Zealand DIY pop pioneers Tall Dwarfs, aka Alec Bathgate and Chris Knox (both previously of Toy Love and The Enemy fame). Designed and painstakingly curated by Bathgate himself, this 55-track collection comprises songs from across the band’s discography which spans a slew of full-length albums, EPs, singles, and compilation cuts released between 1981 and 2002. Unravelled is an abbreviated primer into the ramshackle brilliance of Tall Dwarfs, whose influence has lived on through artists as varied as Pavement, Yo La Tengo, Beck, Waxahatchee, Bill Callahan, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, the Mountain Goats, and Neutral Milk Hotel, just to name a few

“Some of the catchiest and most intelligent songwriting ever conceived. Acoustic outsider poetry punk, mixed with a ‘studio as instrument’ artfulness. What more could you want?” — Jeff Mangum, Neutral Milk Hotel"

All physical formats include a download.

Tracklist

1. Nothing's Going to Happen
2. Luck or Loveliness
3. All My Hollowness to You
4. Maybe
5. Pictures on the Floor
6. Clover
7. Paul's Place
8. The Brain That Wouldn't Die
9. Walking Home
10. Beauty
11. Turning Brown and Torn in Two
12. Crush
13. Shade for Today
14. Pretty Poison
15. Carpetgrabber
16. Sleet
17. Burning Blue
18. Woman (Live)
19. Road and Hedgehog
20. Attack of the Munchies
21. The Slide
22. Waltz of the Good Husband
23. Cant
24. Dog
25. The Winner
26. Bodies
27. Sign the Dotted Line
28. Rorschach
29. Pirouette
30. Wings
31. Lowlands
32. Oatmeal
33. Think Small
34. Life Is Strange
35. We Bleed Love
36. More 54
37. Entropy
38. Bee to Honey
39. Self-Deluded Dreamboy (In a Mess)
40. The Green, Green Grass of Someone Else's Home
41. The Severed Head of Julio
42. Two Minds
43. Jesus the Beast
44. Albumen
45. Cruising with Cochran
46. Fatty Fowl in Gravy Stew
47. The Ugly Mire of Deep Held Feelings
48. Gluey, Gluey
49. Round These Walls
50. Room to Breathe
51. Time to Wait
52. Baby It's Over
53. We Are the Chosen Few
54. The Fatal Flaw of the New
55. Over the Hill