Back in 2021, the cult-beloved Connecticut indie band Ovlov released Buds, a great album that occasioned a Stereogum interview. Today, the band has released frontman Steve Hartlett’s demos for that ...

Whack up the bunting and put the candles on the cake, because somebody very special just turned 30 this year.

And yes, it is an original lo-fi masterpiece that is the progenitor to all (good or bad) lo-fi albums that came after it. Possible dud: 15 Big Ones So both Mick Jagger and Keith Richards still ...

Brazilian shoegaze” sounds like a subgenre that might be rattled off by a record collector in a High Fidelity-esque satire of hipster music nerds, in a list along with lo-fi post-bebop and early 21st ...

They have also shared a video for the album’s latest single, “Living Lo-Fi.” Watch it below, where you can also stream the album. Ben Epstein and David Combs directed the “Living Lo-Fi” video, which ...

Smith also told me about his obsession with Cindy Lee’s acclaimed triple album “Diamond Jubilee ... both rely heavily on lo-fi production, both have maddening abilities to perfect a ...

Rather than the grand baroque folk of the finished album, these demos are caked in lo-fi crackle and cavernous reverb, as if they're drifting in through a busted AM radio. Mr. Misty has always ...