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.
Lo-Fi
Quasi – American Gong
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.
Titus Andronicus – The Monitor
On the evidence of The Monitor, Titus Andronicus might be the most exciting indie-rock band around.
A Grave With No Name – Mountain Debris
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
The Oxygen Ponies – Harmony Handgrenade
With his second album, The Oxygen Ponies, alias Paul Megna, turn lo-fi folk rock to defiantly 21st-century concerns.
Forest Fire – Survival
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.
Introducing :: Internet Forever
“Good at songs, bad at fidelity”. Sounds like a perfect tag line for the wonderous indie-pop of Internet Forever… find out more inside!
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone – Vs. Children
The fifth album from lo-fi Californian Casiotone for the Painfully Alone may be divisive among non-fans.
Mount Eerie – The Dome, London 17/11/08
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.
The Capstan Shafts – Fixation Protocols
Have a short attention span? Love well-crafted lo-fi indie pop? Well, The Capstan Shafts may be for you! Bridget Helgoth reviews.
