Keyword results: Lo-Fi

Weirdo Rippers

18th Jul 07

The Ramones and My Bloody Valentine seem like an unlikely pair. But L.A. duo No Age have created a pad where the two share a beer, an op-shop couch, and a total “dude” crush on each other. Marrying the lo-fi experimentation of early Pavement, Trumans Water, and Black Dice with bratty garage rock and teenage lyrics, WEIRDO RIPPERS is fun music about mucking around.

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Catcall

6th Jun 07
Release: MySpace
To Cure: An empty dancefloor

Catcall is a new alias for Catherine Kelleher. You may have seen her over the last few years screaming her lungs out with bratty punk band Kiosk but the music she makes as Catcall is completely different - I'd describe it as lo-fi R&B.
I got a copy of her CD demo a few months ago, it sounded like a cross between The Blow and Cassie, which is amazing, so I booked her a show, which I loved, so I asked Cat if I could be her DJ.

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Fluorescent Grey

30th May 07
Release: EP
To Cure: A quiet weekend

Deerhunter’s FLUORESCENT GREY EP is the dream existential suicide, insofar as you can commit it / listen to it more than once. There are only four songs, but each is a chemically lucid vignette of hazy psych-sex. Saturated in the sounds of transcendental death, the record plays out as an extended epiphany as good as the calm part of drowning’s meant to be.

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