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For bedroom artists around the country, this is a watershed moment, a benchmark to be celebrated, whilst for lo-fi music on the whole, it offers more clues to where its boom could lead to.
From the opening seconds of American Gong, the memories of saccharine sounds are erased as Quasi chug like jet engine on their latest long player.
On the evidence of The Monitor, Titus Andronicus might be the most exciting indie-rock band around.
A dark, fuzzy cloud of influences hangs over the debut record by A Grave With No Name making it an equally daunting, confusing and exhilarating listen. Rich Hughes reviews.a
With his second album, The Oxygen Ponies, alias Paul Megna, turn lo-fi folk rock to defiantly 21st-century concerns.
Flawed and ragged round the edges Forest Fire’s ‘Survival’ is a 26-minute ramshackle, tumbledown album of heartfelt fragments. But does it hold together as an album? Matt Poacher reviews.
“Good at songs, bad at fidelity”. Sounds like a perfect tag line for the wonderous indie-pop of Internet Forever… find out more inside!
The fifth album from lo-fi Californian Casiotone for the Painfully Alone may be divisive among non-fans.
Olympia-based lo-fi singer-songwriter kingpin-musician person-type thing Phil Elvrum makes the odd surroundings of The Dome his for the night. Accompanied only by an electric guitar. Ama Chana reviews.
Have a short attention span? Love well-crafted lo-fi indie pop? Well, The Capstan Shafts may be for you! Bridget Helgoth reviews.