Bands don't like to be called lo-fi bands, bands don't like to be given a genre full stop. I guess it can't be nice, but it's just humans making sense of the world. But hey! HERE'S THE TOP FIVE BANDS WITH LO-FI RECORDINGS OF THEIR SONGS! Hopefully that's politically correct enough...
5) PENS
Three girls "singing", half a drum kit, a guitar and a keyboard. Combine this with lo-fi recordings of their amazingly good/bad songs, you have yourself a lo-fi lolly pop!
4) SMITH WESTERNS
Anything can be recorded lo-fi, but it usually tends to be punk, or D.I.Y punk. What it doesn't tend to be is glam rock! Glam rock is all shiny and polished. Smith Westerns came along and brought some dirty lo-fi to some modern glam rock. The results were SHVEET.
3) GRAFFITI ISLAND
These guys have got a lot of scrutiny thrown at them, they are just misunderstood. They are all scary, all minimalistic and all lo-fi. They use the lo-fi to make their songs sound dusty and old. Which is cool.
2) VIVIAN GIRLS
Girl groups are the most well produced musical acts around. So Vivian Girls, being the cool girls they are, decided to write classic girl-group style songs. Complete with plenty of jangle, "thud, thud thud, whack!" drums and bad girl vocal delivery, these lo-fi recorded girls are queens of the scene.
1) OLD BLOOD
Their recordings are the definition of lo-fi, you can hardly hear anything apart from the fuzz of everything at the same time. They have great songs though. Woah-fi.
Words by Jack Parker for Power Chord Music Blog. Feel free to comment on this post with your top 5 bands with lo-fi recordings of their songs!
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