| French label Burning Emptiness stand alone at the vanguard of anything and everything lo-fi, avant-garde, techno, or just plain and simple noise. |
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| Recorded in DIY lo-fi, they have better chemistry than when they debuted on the Sanddollars EP earlier this year. |
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| Tom Vek meets the contemporary current of fashionable new new-wave spliced and spiced with bedroom lo-fi. |
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| This is a Northern European mongrel of dizzy lo-fi with pop hooks to help you escape the everyday. |
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| As long as people believe poverty and authenticity go hand-in-hand, lo-fi will never go out of style. |
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| There's no cross-section of early period lo-fi, mid-period big studio slickness and late period mid-fi compromise. |
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| In the digital age, lo-fi recordings have improved incredibly in terms of sound and affordability. |
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| This is a band that needs a little lo-fi in their sound to be truly effective. |
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| Track nine contains what sounds like a lo-fi recording of the master musicians of Jajouka, which has been increasingly scuffed up over time. |
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| By this I think he meant that the lo-fi sound is more than compensated for by the energy and enthusiasm that jumps out of every track. |
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| The hazy, semi-hallucinogenic beauty is boosted by the lo-fi, not-quite-focused home recording. |
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| When wrapped around his infectious melodies, though, they prove to be perfect bedfellows to his lo-fi sound. |
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| Musically they are part of a welcome trend away from slick 1990s production towards lo-fi sounds. |
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| Thankfully the Future Shock EP shows all the same qualities of the later debut, with a slightly more lo-fi recording. |
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| You're led to believe they'll continue in a lo-fi style of indie Can-rock, but they don't for long. |
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| Every song has a great hook or riff, and Saloman's guitar sears across these lo-fi recordings. |
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| The results sound like lo-fi prog-rock, if you can imagine such an unlikely beast. |
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| If the term lo-fi needed to be defined, it would be by this album. |
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| This larger-than-life sound is portrayed both vocally and by use of the padded layers of lo-fi treated guitars and keyboard fills. |
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| And the lo-fi continuum being celebrated here did in fact turn out to be a confederacy of introverts, if not to say solipsists. |
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| And yet, armed with crafty pop hooks, scuzzy lo-fi folkiness and a grubby hat, that's exactly what he did. |
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| In 1982, he released Nebraska, a masterpiece of hush-toned dirges about murderers and chicken-man killers and accidentally invented lo-fi. |
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| The play their own unique style of melodic lo-fi indie rock, with flowing guitar lines, soft vocals and fat drums and bass. |
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| The Price is an eclectic brew of fuzzy lo-fi tinkering, rainy-day '80s balladry and balls-out devil-sign rock. |
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| Her first starring role came in the 2009 lo-fi indie Exploding Girl, about a young epileptic woman on a summer break from college. |
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| The 5.1 track still retains some of the lo-fi hollowness of the original mono, but is overall an excellent mix. |
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| These ones are judging stylistically again, they might like a certain lo-fi recording but to me the method of producing shouldn't get in the way. |
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| After all, her music resembles some kind of stormy, fascinating dark folk imbued by a psychedelic, lo-fi atmosphere of coldness and warmth. |
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| The man is a legend of popular music: the supposed inventor of lo-fi, he is at the crossroads between rock and the mythology of primitive art. |
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| The concept was lo-fi alternative-folk music that focused on emotions and melodies. |
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| Aside from the roots of many a New Zealand band, you can also hear the seeds of Yo La Tengo, and various lo-fi factions of American indie rock. |
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| The quartet embraces the classic punk idioms of lo-fi production, charging guitars and three-chord progressions. |
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| From his early lo-fi home recordings to his one-a-year studio albums, Pollard has never been one for self-censoring, and as such this work is hit-and-miss. |
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| Recorded on a home tape deck, the sound is definitely lo-fi, and Reed's vocals at times are almost swamped beneath his and Sterling Morrison's blazing guitars. |
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| His rough, fuzzy backgrounds and crisp, hard-edged beats have a ragged beauty that shines through all the tape static and lo-fi murk of his recordings. |
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| Some say her lyrics are reminiscent of Liz Phair and her sound is lo-fi. |
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| Much like the indie-rock version of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, this lo-fi gem was recorded following the breakup of band members Rick White and Julie Dorion. |
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| The lack of sonic variety prevents most of the songs from making much of an impression musically, and in general lo-fi really starts to grate after about 20 straight minutes. |
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| Their first album was a rough as guts lo-fi recording, but featured considerable verve and passion. |
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| A math rock ethic is transposed into the distorted modern lo-fi sounds of Lee's guitar work. |
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| But for now, the debonair local tunesmith is a high-class guy living in a lo-fi world. |
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| The visuals are indeed noisy, harsh, unforgiving, brutal, lo-fi verging on no-fi. |
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| One does not normally think of labels milking the minor successes of lo-fi indie groups, but apparently it happens. |
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| But the overall album is either cheesily overproduced or simply too lo-fi. |
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| After the court-ordered shutdown, bosses flirted with the idea of reinstating free sharing, but with music that had the lo-fi quality of radio. |
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| This lo-fi Brit debut follows Hyena and Snow in Paradise in attempting to convert its budgetary limitations into a grimily serious aesthetic. |
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| Pajarita's style can be described as lo-fi pop, dreamy and awesomely catchy for its simpleness and discretion. |
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| This is very much the lo-fi, ambiguously related peppermint duo of old. |
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| Some die-hard old FB freaks will regret the loss of this lo-fi, others will hear different new things. |
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| The stop-motion-like lo-fi worked well as a metaphor for human communication. |
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| Verve's engineers have done a good job salvaging listenable versions from Coltrane's lo-fi listening copy. |
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| Each of the Venom synth's four multitimbral parts has its own effect insert for Compression, EQ, and Distortion-plus Bit Reduction and Decimation for the ultimate in lo-fi and glitchy electro. |
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| The track opens with glitchy lo-fi distortion and reggae crooning. |
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| The central form is taken from the vernacular of lo-fi computer graphics that were integral to the audio-visual experience at early 90's acid house raves. |
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| The Christmas Grump allows scope for the Northern Stage team's trademark lo-fi entertainment, such as puppets, shadow play and old-school playthings. |
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| If you put together a simple, scuzzy bassline, off kilter drums, yelping vocals and cover it all in some lo-fi haze you have something resembling a K Records B side. |
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| Brilliantly disorientating Danish band whose skill is spanning genres, from Krautrock, lo-fi, post-rock, psychedelics, ambient, singalong pop and noise. |
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