lo-fi
NEWS: Larry Pink the Human release debut single ‘Love You, Bye’.
Larry Pink the Human consists of Laurie Vincent from the band Slaves and producer Jolyon Thomas. Thomas, whose production credits include M83, U2 and Royal Blood, is exchanging the studio for the stage, and the project is Vincent’s first stab as a lyricist. The idea is to create a space for expression, and exploration of …
EP: Dorian- Just What Is It That Makes Dorian So Different, So Appealing?
Dorian is Mr Cox, the former guitarist with the Long Blondes, now in Manchester and making a return to releasing music. A warning though, the Long Blondes this ain’t. It’s not the sound of a stylish indiepop career relaunched. Or a career of any kind really. It sounds like someone who doesn’t give a fuck …
See: Former Bullies release video for Stranger, ahead of new album
Out next month on Towed By The Ghost records, Former Bullies new album “Stranger” is preceded by a video for the title track. Watch the band play while simultaneously wearing amusing home made hats – an image fitting perfectly with the engagingly shabby lo-fi sound cut through with pop riffs and scratchy shoegaze style harmonies. …
Track: Rhys Bloodjoy: Scandinavian Girlfriend / Broken Window
Emerging from the shadowy backstreets and alleys of Manchester, the hooded figure of Rhys Bloodjoy brings us his debut 7″, Scandinavian Girlfriend / Broken Window. Fraut with tension, almost sinister in its delivery, Bloodjoy utilises the looper to create a stroke of lo-fi genius, that will haunt you long into the night… Scandinavian Girlfriend / Broken …
Track: Forced Random – Go Get It
By Ryan Jameson Weaver Go Get It, the latest track from Forced Random, is a paramount of tantalizing proportions. It is an anthemic cut that will pull at your heartstrings with its introspective guise and bring you up with its upward mobility. The slow, thrashing, wall of noise unfolds in front of you like dominoes …
Album Review: Antlered Aunt Lord – Ostensibly Formerly Stunted (and on fire)
Sometime Tunabunny drummer Jesse Stinnard has recently released his first record under his Antlered Aunt Lord moniker. Titled Ostensibly Formerly Stunted and released on the HHBTM label, it’s a mixture of his own lo-fi and very much DIY recordings that Stinnard culled from a bank of almost 200. His reputation (locally) as something of eccentric …
Track: Frankie Cosmos – Sand
Short and sweet is really the only way to sum up Sand – the new single from Frankie Cosmos. Frankie Cosmos is Greta Kline, a New York native who has been writing songs and self-releasing them on Bandcamp under the pseudonym since late 2011. She released her debut studio album, Zentropy, in 2014 and has …
Track: Advance Base – Pamela
It’s been three years since singe songwriter Owem Ashworth released his debut album under his Advance Base moniker, A Shut-Ins Prayer. Since then, he’s been busy on projects including a book of drawings, making beats for Chicago rapper Serengeti, recoding the debut single by psych-folker Mulie Byrne, contributing to Sun Kil Moon’s Beni album, and …
Album Review: Girlpool – Before the World Was Big
When The World Was Big, the debut album from lo-fi duo Girlpool, is one of those albums that welcomes you in, makes you feel happy and keeps you pleasantly engrossed right to the very end. As the title suggests, many of the songs take you back to the time we were growing up, a time …
EP Review: Eerie Glue//Joey Fourr – ‘Yr New Favourite EP’
I reckon every recording artist both signed and unsigned pre-about-2000 has at one point in their career recorded music in the Lo-fi style. The mental image of a young Rick Astley crooning into a 4-track tape recorder accompanied only by a rickety nylon-string may startle more than say, Keith Morris doing it, but I suspect …