Tangled Shoelaces - Turn My Dial (M Squared Recordings and more 1981-84)Reissue of ridiculously catchy early 80s new wave pop recordings by Australia's youngest original band, aged 10 14. A record of imagination and diversity, of engaging innocence and muted expressiveness, of breadth and depth Rolling Stone Wide eyed psychedelic new wave from Australia's youngest composing and recording band. Tangled Shoelaceswere aged 10 14 when they first started in a leafy suburb of Brisbane in 1980. The band centred around three

Ken Kesey’s Ultra Rare 1966 studio recording of the Acid Test with The Grateful Dead originally released in 1966

almost Can-like rhythm

Darnielle armed his band with new songs and reunited with producer Matt Ross-Spang who engineered last year’s In League with Dragons

high unemployment

economic disparity

unexpected layers reinforcing the monophonic skeletons

The album is also the band’s first with Sumerian Records

who appears on backing vocals

made pre-'Murmur' to 'Life's Rich Pageant' that were outtakes or released as flip sides to their singles internationally

Recorded while living with Foxygen's Jonathan Rado at his rented house in Bloomington

Maybe they never were

No Depression is cited as one of the most important albums in the alternative country genre