Tall Drawfs - Fork Songs

A New Zealand band that have influenced a bunch of bands. the sound it's awesome, charming, and it becomes more interesting as you take new listenings. if you like pop you should get it, if you like lo-fi pop you must get it. Tall Dwarfs introduced this concept - accompanied by strong, richly melodic guitar-and-synth material - with the EP,Three Songs: A Future (1981), the first of a succession of sporadic releases on the financially challenged Flying Nun. Early EP tracks were collected for the compilation Hello Cruel World (1987), and with a grant from the New Zealand Arts Council they made their first proper album, Weeville, in 1990. It showcased the band's sound and the sharp, political edge of Knox's satirical lyrics, and it was in retrospect their finest hour. The next - tenth anniversary - album, Fork Songs (1991), was a more uneasy combination, with the alluring tunes at odds with Knox's increasingly bleak and morbid lyrics ('Thoughts of death inside us/Coil and eat the oatmeal of our brains'). Red Krayola, Kinks, Beach Boys, Velvet UNderground, what else can i say? To know more http://latham.dropbear.id.au/stasis/stasisba.htm