Tall Dwarfs

New Zealand duo of singers/songwriters Chris Knox and Alec Bathgate (aka Tall Dwarfs) were forebears of both the lo-fi movement and indie rock writ large, bringing an experimental approach to laconic jangle pop melodies and recording everything themselves on four-track. Their somewhat warped songs always kept pop at the core, and their shabby psychedelic production paved the way for both the Elephant 6 collective and the early home recording phases of bands like Pavement, Smog, Eric's Trip, and many others. The band produced new material prolifically, issuing near-annual EPs t...