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Lo-Fi

Artist Song
Sebadoh  Brand New Love  
Pavement  Cut Your Hair  
Liz Phair  Flower  
Neutral Milk Hotel  In the Aeroplane Over the Sea  
Guided By Voices  I Am a Scientist  
Beck  Loser  
The Magnetic Fields  100,000 Fireflies  
The Apples In Stereo  Energy  
Ween  Push Th' Little Daisies  
The Olivia Tremor Control  A Sunshine Fix  
Elliott Smith  Angeles  
Modest Mouse  Dramamine  
Folk Implosion  Pole Position  
Smog  Bathysphere  
Daniel Johnston & Jad Fair  Casper the Friendly Ghost  
East River Pipe  Make a Deal with the City  
Hayden  Home By Saturday  
Portastatic  The Angels of Sleep  
Palace Brothers  I Had a Good Mother and Father  
of Montreal  Happy Yellow Bumblebee  
The 6ths  You You You You You  
Sentridoh  Certain Dance-Circumstance  
Beat Happening  Fortune Cookie Prize  
The Mountain Goats  No Children  
Neutral Milk Hotel  Ghost  
Pavement  Summer Babe  
Grifters  Skin Man Palace  
The Magnetic Fields  The Book of Love  
Sebadoh  Soul and Fire  
Elf Power  High Atop the Silver Branches  
Smog  Chosen One  
Elliott Smith  Needle In the Hay  
Liz Phair  Never Said  
The Apples In Stereo  Same Old Drag  
Tom Waits  That Feel  
Beck  One Foot In the Grave  
Guided By Voices  Echos Myron  
Chris Knox  Not Given Lightly  
The Olivia Tremor Control  Love Athena  
R. Stevie Moore  Too Old (To Fall In Love)  
Robert Pollard  Submarine Teams  
Ween  Birthday Boy  
M. Ward  To Go Home  
The Clean  Tally Ho  
Modest Mouse  Paper Thin Walls  
Jack Logan  Associate  
Bonnie "Prince" Billy  I See a Darkness  
The Gerbils  Sunshine Soul  
The Bats  North By North  
Yo La Tengo  Barnaby, Hardly Working  
Sebadoh  Magnet's Coil  
The Halo Benders  Magic Carpet Ride  
of Montreal  Don't Ask Me to Explain  
Portastatic  The Main Thing  
Pussy Galore  Sweet Little Hi-Fi  
The Magnetic Fields  Desert Island  
Cynthia Dall  Christmas (California)  
Pavement  Debris Slide  
Beulah  Popular Mechanics for Lovers  
Beat Happening  Our Secret  
Palace Music  New Partner  
The Essex Green  Primrose  
Guided By Voices  A Salty Salute  
Low  I Remember  
Grifters  Bronze Cast  
Dinosaur Jr.  Freak Scene  
Palace Brothers  Merida  
Monroe Mustang  The Elephant Sound 424  
Railroad Jerk  Gun Problem  
The Minders  Hooray for Tuesday  
R. Stevie Moore  Alecia  
Marshmallow Coast  Creative Writing  
Strapping Fieldhands  The Author In Her Ear  
Dressy Bessy  New Song (From Me to You)  
Refrigerator  Map to the Stars  

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The hiss of a thrift store tape machine, the simple mix available to a four-track, and the sometimes pained/sometimes ecstatic honesty of unfiltered emotion — such is the appeal of lo-fi indie rock, the guarded, cultish realm of record store regulars and kids in scuffed Chucks. Partly a reaction to the era's massively overproduced radio hits, partly the intersection of cheap, new technology with musicians who wanted control over every aspect of recording, lo-fi isn't one monolithic sound; it's dozens — and we've got points of entry for every flavor. From the perpetual-grey-cloud moodiness of Elliott Smith to the helium-on-steroids buffoonery of Ween to the needle-pinned-in-the-red-overmodulation of Portastatic, we've got the lowdown on lo-fi.
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