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Probably early Belle & Sebastian.
On the whole I tend to be suspicious of modern lo-fi bands.
I mean I love the DIY ethic and the idea that anyone with an idea can nowadays record that and put it out there without massloads of money or technical knowledge but at the same time affordable music recording technology nowadays is a pretty high standard and you can get a good quality recording with not much skill or money and I do suspect certain bands record in a way that sounds deliberately cheap and shoddy and I find that a little contrived.
Yikes!
Depends what you mean by 'Lo-Fi'! But I suppose Pavement are Über-awesomely lo-fi. And their songs Gold Soundz or Loretta's Scars are both super-duper!
Joe - www.anewbandaday.com
the thermals obviously
though only heir first album was really lo-fi
Guided by Voices
End of thread.
Pussy Galore
You Look Like a Jew
LOL!
thats pretty lo-fi.
top choon!! :oD
lo-fi records i love:
castanets - catherdral
shins - oh inverted
microphones - glow pt 2
much of spoon
pavement - all
theres too many good bands
Sebadoh
rebound, on fire, oh all of them really...
How low/high
does the fidelity have to be before a band is valid as lo-fi (or not)? Apologies for the poorly constructed sentence.
People think lo-fi
is a genre of music, and then go off listing songs by indie guitar bands recorded in expensive studios. It's quite embarrassing.
My favourite lo-fi record is Lou Barlow & His Sentridoh (in reply to OP)
Lo-fi
Radar Bros: Into the Hills
South San Gabriel: Pageant Square
Dios (malos): Old Field Recordings
Anything on Grandaddy's first two albums.
Babybird
Them first 5 albums are class, with Losing My Hair being a particular highlight.
/\/\/\/\/\ THIS
Is very true, in every respect
Joe - www.anewbandaday.com
dinosaur jr
'you're living all over me'
wheat
'hope and adams'
bum
p
the gories
who refused to record in a studio so recorded one of their albums in a shed next to the studio they had booked.
.....................
'Lo-Fi' doesn't mean a fucking thing.
It is even more of a vague, elastic and utterly meaningless catch-all tag than the continuing trend for faux-'emo'.
i agree with emo meaning nothing
but 'lo-fi' plainly gives you an idea of how a band will sound and so it is a useful description
R STEVIE MOORE !!
the godfather of home recording
anyone ??
hello by the way.
achem
http://www.cherryred.co.uk/cherryred/artists/rsteviemoore.php
oh, and www.fencerecords.com
yip yip !
essential five
You're Living All Over Me - Dinosaur Jr
Bee Thousand - Guided By Voices
Slanted and Enchanted - Pavement
III - Sebadoh
Accelerator - Royal Trux
Those five were pretty obvious but now somebody name five forgotten gems of the era I probably haven't heard! I need some new old music...
BLITZEN TRAPPER - FIELD REXX
some of war against sleep is good
guided by voices
buzzards and dreadful crows
first track off cyhsy - some loud thunder
The Sticks...
....anything
Our arbitrator; Mr Wiki
Lo-fi is an aesthetic in music production which uses lo-fi recording practices. Its use is usually due to the artist's financial limitations. Many lo-fi artists use inexpensive cassette tape recorders for their music. The term was coined by WFMU DJ William Berger who dedicated a half hour segment of his program to home recorded music throughout the late '80s under the name Lo-fi.
Lo-Fi
delity Allstars :) I'll go home now.
Guided By Voices
I discovered them recently and by fuck what a discovery. My favourite album is 'Alien Lanes' and I would recommend either 'Motor Away' or 'Game of Pricks' from that record. Alternatively 'Bee Thousand' as mentioned up there has 'Tractor Rape Chain' or 'Echoes Myron' which are both great.