Excepts from The Unknown Legends Of Rock N Roll by Ritchie  Untenberger 2015 (E book edition) 

Denny Carleton’s 1985 release Color with Crayons was one of the standout cassette underground recordings of the 1980s.

One of the most interesting blends of pop and the avant-garde on an ‘80s home tape, this hour-long suite of sorts weaves together song fragments as if they’re fading in and out of a dream. 

The fidelity is lo-fi, and the instrumentation primitive in an ‘80s sort of way, with its rhythm machine and Casio. Yet these bits and pieces are very catchy pop-rock, and most likely more interesting when strung together in this fashion than they would be as fully developed songs. 

Reverb and spooky sound effects supply much of the experimental quotient, but don’t overwhelm the sometimes power-poppish songs, sung with great ebullience and heart. 

This is somewhat easier to find than many home tapes after getting issued on CD in 2000, again on Carleton’s own label.