| Weeville | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Tall Dwarfs |
| Cover: | Weeville.jpg |
| Released: | 1990 |
| Genre: | Indie pop, indie rock, lo-fi |
| Length: | 46:14 |
| Label: | Flying Nun Homestead Records[1] |
| Prev Title: | Hello Cruel World |
| Prev Year: | 1986 |
| Next Title: | Fork Songs |
| Next Year: | 1991 |
Weeville is an album by New Zealand band Tall Dwarfs, released in 1990.[2] [3] It was the band's first album, after almost a decade of EP-only releases.[4]
The album was reissued, along with Fork Songs, in 2005 by Cloud Recordings.[5] The band toured the United States to promote the reissue.[6]
The album was made possible by a grant from the New Zealand Arts Council.[7]
Trouser Press called the album "unpretentious but insidiously great."[8] Exclaim! wrote that "the songs that endure are acoustically strummed with simple arrangements."[9] The Chicago Tribune labeled it "a Sgt. Pepper of low-tech innovation."[10] 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." The Winnipeg Sun deemed the band "lo-fi psych-pop pioneers."