Tall Dwarfs, Weeville (side A)

1990's Weeville contains the Tall Dwarfs' most consistently focused, classic songwriting.  Fortunately, it maintains the strange textures and arrangements that make the duo distinctive and special.  The home recording is primitive, but the balances are intuitive and appropriate (my New Zealand vinyl copy is pressed nicely, too).  The underlying rhythmic loops give no hints to the origin of their strange palettes.  And there are still nice moments where they stretch out into their trademark absurdity, like "Lucky", which closes side A.  The cover photo of Chris and Alec is sufficiently silly, and the scribbled text nicely matches the album's primitive recording and simple songs.