Tall Dwarfs is a New Zealand music project founded in 1981 by Chris Knox and Alik Bathgate. Their primitive, often avant-garde DIY approach to creating music had a rather significant impact on the formation and development of the low-est aesthetics in modern music [1] . Since there was no drummer in the group, third-party objects and percussion samples were often used as drums [2] . Despite the fact that the group has always remained in the deepest underground and little known even in music circles, it has influenced many well-known bands, in particular, the Neutral Milk Hotel and Pavement .
| Tall dwarfs | |
|---|---|
| Genre | low fi indie rock experimental rock psychedelic rock |
| Years | 1981 - p.t. |
| A country |  New Zealand |
| Where from | Dunedin |
| Label | Flying nun records |
| Composition | Chris Knox Alik Bathgate |
Discography
| Date of issue | Title | Label | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mini Albums | ||||||
| 1981 | Three songs | Furtive records | ||||
| 1982 | Louis Likes His Daily Dip | Flying nun records | ||||
| 1983 | Planned music | Flying nun records | ||||
| 1984 | Slugbucket hairybreath monster | Flying nun records | ||||
| 1985 | That's the Short and Long of It | Flying nun records | ||||
| 1986 | Throw a sickie | Flying nun records | ||||
| 1987 | Dogma | Flying nun records | ||||
| 1998 | Gluey, Gluey and The Ear Friend | Flying nun records | ||||
| Albums | ||||||
| 1990 | Weeville | Flying nun records | ||||
| 1991 | Fork songs | Flying nun records | ||||
| 1994 | 3 EPs | Flying nun records | ||||
| 1996 | Stumpy (like International Tall Dwarfs) | Flying nun records | ||||
| 1998 | Fifty Flavors of Glue | Flying nun records | ||||
| 2002 | The Sky Above the Mud Below | Flying nun records | ||||
| Collections | ||||||
| 1988 | Hello cruel world | Flying nun records | ||||
| 1992 | The Short and Sick of It | Flying nun records | ||||