| Weeville | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1990 | |||
| Genre | Indie pop, indie rock, lo-fi | |||
| Length | 46:14 | |||
| Label | Flying Nun [1] Homestead Records [2] | |||
| Tall Dwarfs chronology | ||||
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Weeville is an album by New Zealand band Tall Dwarfs, released in 1990. [3] [4] It was the band's first album, after almost a decade of EP-only releases. [5]
The album was reissued, along with Fork Songs , in 2005 by Cloud Recordings. [6] The band toured the United States to promote the reissue. [7]
The album was made possible by a grant from the New Zealand Arts Council. [8]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [9] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [1] |
| MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide | [10] |
| Philadelphia Weekly | A [11] |
| Pitchfork | 7.0/10 [12] |
| Spin Alternative Record Guide | 9/10 [13] |
| Winnipeg Sun |  [14] |
Trouser Press called the album "unpretentious but insidiously great." [15] Exclaim! wrote that "the songs that endure are acoustically strummed with simple arrangements." [16] The Chicago Tribune labeled it "a Sgt. Pepper of low-tech innovation." [17] Philadelphia Weekly noted that "Weeville also underscores just how profoundly the Kiwi scene affected America's Elephant 6 collective, which took that affinity for pretty/ugly experimentation to dizzying heights." [11] The Winnipeg Sun deemed the band "lo-fi psych-pop pioneers." [14]
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