TALL DWARFS - Hello Cruel World - LP 1988 Flying Nun - Chills Verlaines Toy Love
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Vinyl is Excellent. Cover is Excellent condition. Released on Homestead/Flying Nun Records.
NOTES: Chris Knox is the godfather of the New Zealand alternative-music scene — if Iggy Pop, Joan Jett, Robyn Hitchcock and Lou Reed were all the same person, that's how important he is to Kiwi pop. The Enemy, Knox's unrecorded early group, was by all reports New Zealand's first great punk band; its successor, the coulda-been-a-contender Toy Love, made one pretty good album and some more-than-pretty-good singles; the group even flirted with mainstream Antipodean success. After Toy Love broke up, bassist Paul Kean joined the Bats; Knox and guitarist Alec Bathgate formed a still-going experimental duo, Tall Dwarfs. Then there's his lengthy solo career, his engineering of many important early New Zealand pop records, his legendary half-improvised live performances (somewhere between music and standup comedy), his championing of the Omnichord (one of the silliest instruments ever played onstage) and his generous nurturing of the international pop scene. It also doesn't hurt that he's a first-rate songwriter.
Knox sings in Tall Dwarfs most of the time, but the group is a full-fledged collaboration with Bathgate; their records are very different from Knox's solo records, with ultra-weird arrangements (often dominated by their signature loops of deeply unconventional percussion) and subtler, trickier songs. The duo's first four EPs are collected on the essential Hello Cruel World.
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RECORD GRADING:
SS: Still Sealed, any defects such a "cut-out" holes will be noted in the description
NEAR-MINT - : A rarely played record.
EXCELLENT - Not quite NM but better than VG+. Only slight signs of being played.
VG+ : a used, reasonable copy. There will be obvious signs of wear and the possibility of light surface noise between tracks or during quiet passages, but still quite nice.
VG : Very Good - a used played copy. There will be obvious signs of wear and surface noise between tracks or during quiet passages. I only sell VG records if they are scarce or older records from the 1950s.
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