Tangled Shoelaces

Turn My Dial - The M Squared Recordings and more, 1981​-​84

Tracklist

  1. The Biggest Movie Ever Made
  2. World
  3. Oceans Away
  4. Turn My Dial
  5. I Need A Stamp
  6. Political Jokes
  7. Sleeping
  8. Little Bear
  9. Bordumb
  10. Giant Rabbits
  11. Indulgence
  12. Edifus
  13. Rain Clouds
  14. What Do You Want From Me Now?
  15. Just 4 U
  16. On the Sea
  17. You Can Come Too
  18. Wental Trap
  19. S.E.P.
  20. Rejection
  21. Fred's Cave
  22. Beware Of Falling Objects

About the album

“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 Shoelaces were aged 10-14 when they first started in a leafy suburb of Brisbane in 1980. The band centred around three baby-faced siblings Stephen, Lucy and Martin Mackerras, with neighbour Leigh Nelson on drums. Lucy and Martin were musical prodigies and Stephen a precociously talented songwriter.

They opened for wildly inappropriate acts like Dead Kennedys and John Cooper Clarke before they were old enough to drink in Australian pubs. By the time they broke up in 1984, with just one 7 inch single to their name, the oldest members were still only 18.

Chapter sifts through an archive of recordings made at the legendary studios of Sydney label M Squared, home to fabled Australian post-punk artists like Systematics, Scattered Order and Ya Ya Choral.
Turn My Dial presents 22 tracks, most of them previously unreleased, of the smartest, catchiest, most eccentric teenage pop you'll ever hear.

Vinyl comes with extensive images and liner notes, plus download card including six digital bonus tracks.



Release Date: 2021-04-23