Tangled Shoelaces

The equally experimental and poppy post-punk sounds of the Australian band Tangled Shoelaces weren't heard by many people during their short career in the early 1980s. The teenaged group recorded many songs that mixed the anything-goes artiness of bands like the Swell Maps with the tuneful weirdness of the Television Personalities, but only a handful were released at the time. Chapter Music fixed that injustice when they issued the band's complete catalog in 2021 under the title Turn My Dial: M Squared Recordings & More, 1981-1984. ~ Tim Sendra