"The whole record was such a growing and learning experience for me," says Reinhart, who had a hand in each aspect of "
Lo-Fi Soul," from choosing the vinyl packaging to working with photographer Dana Trippe for the album's promo shots.
The
lo-fi folk popsters have plenty of gigs lined up before Evolution Emerging 2015 and are sure to be in top form by the time May 23 comes around.
Hailing from the suburbs of Atlanta, the production stylings of Valiant Horizon's newest artist Ultraloner is decidedly
lo-fi. This sound brings to mind the early days of synthpop and the 8-bit soundtracks of classic arcade games of yesteryear.
Saturday Berkley Suite, Glasgow Deep Groan Jnr C and The Organist (of Love) playing weird pop, dark dance, soundtracks,
lo-fi electro, new wave, international sounds and more.
If you put together a simple, scuzzy bassline, off kilter drums, yelping vocals and cover it all in some
lo-fi haze you have something resembling a K Records B side.
There seems to be a definite American influence throughout that adds to the relaxed
lo-fi sound that the collective encompass in their music.
Over nearly four decades, the Belgrade-born, Zagreb-based Mladen Stilinovic has engaged in obsessive,
lo-fi gestures that channel the competing multiethnic, quasi-socialist sensibilities of his birthplace, the former Yugoslavia, its 1991 dissolution having neatly bisected his career.
Recorded on Garage Band in his parents' pool house on a lot of weed, Wavves spurred the
lo-fi beach lovers movement.
The acoustic meandering on Caught By The River ushers in a four-song encore completed by the instantlyrecognisable
lo-fi glow of There Goes The Fear, brought to a brilliant climax by bombastic samba drums.
NOAH AND THE WHALE Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down (Vertigo) HAILED as the
lo-fi saviours of folk, the Londoners' debut album happily lives up to the hype as it examines the effects of love, death and the passage of time.
stock market's crash this week on a similar fall in China, but at least one critic has speculated that the selloff could have been caused in part by a headline and link at the top of Matt Drudge's popular news aggregation Web site, accompanied by his signature
lo-fi police siren graphic.