Tag Archives: Lo-Fi

Honey Radar’s Jason Henn began saving tunes in his Indiana bedroom in the mid-2000s, quickly building up an extraordinary catalog of lo-fi acoustic guitar pop that sounded just like a much less drunk Guided by Voices with some Rolling Rocks and Midwestern weirdness mixed in. He quickly began liberating CD-Rs, …

California’s Olivia O’Brien is a vocalist having a bent toward dance-oriented, electronic pop and emotive balladry. Created in 1000 Oaks, California in 1999, O’Brien was raised singing from a age and trained herself to try out acoustic guitar and piano. By her teenagers, she was composing her own tracks, aswell …

After performing with Rochester, NY noise rock and roll instrumentalists Technology vs. Witchcraft, guitarist Mike Rheinheimer made a decision to indulge his mellow part when the music group had operate its program. In 2006 Rheinheimer began documenting the self-titled debut EP from what would become his fresh task, Attic Abasement. …

A single moniker for Philadelphia musician Michelle Zauner, Japan Breakfast began being a monthlong, song-a-day composing challenge throughout a break from her indie rock-band Little Big Group. That led to 2013’s June, a romantic group of melodic, electrical guitar-accompanied lo-fi music released on cassette by Ranch Information. She continued to …

Anti-folk misfit Wayne Clayton created Crywank like a cathartic single task in Manchester, Britain in ’09 2009. Performing acerbic confessionals of acoustic folk-punk in the vein of Andrew Jackson Jihad, Clayton’s sadness, paranoia, misery, and dried out laughter pervaded the music. Early function was mainly distributed inside a D.We.Y. fashion …

Los Angeles-based maker gnash (given birth to Garrett Charles Nash) combines the emotional vulnerability of Bright Eye using the sounds of laptop computer alt-R&B like the Weeknd’s early produces. Gnash got his begin like a DJ and as one area of the duo Gemineyes with Harry Hudson. In 2014, his …

Purveyors of atmospheric indie pop, Tiny Fireflies is a cooperation between Chicago lo-fi songwriter/music artists and incredibly Truly Yours bandmates Kristine Capua (aka Tiny Mike) and Lisle Mitnik (aka Fireflies). With Capua on vocals, they released a somber eponymous EP this year 2010 that included a movingly murky edition from …

An emo-charged noise punk outfit from Baltimore, Maryland, Teen Suicide was constructed throughout the core duo of vocalist/guitarist Sam Ray and drummer Eric Livingston. Produced in ’09 2009, the duo released a compilation of early demos entitled Poor Vibes in 2011, accompanied by a trio of EPs (DC Snuff Film, …

Crafting moody and introspective lo-fi pop tunes that are melodic but structurally ambitious simultaneously, CARSEAT Headrest may be the moniker utilized by musician and songwriter Can Toledo. Toledo was raised in Williamsburg, Virginia, where he learned all about music theory while playing in the college student symphonic music group in …

An Ohio indigenous who also mixes experimental elements and breezy melodicism in his instrumental saving task, Blithe Field, Spencer Radcliffe is a singer and songwriter of ramshackle bedroom pop. He self-released his initial Blithe Field record, Old Music/New Songs, at the start of 2008. Using synths, electrical guitars, acoustic percussion, …