Lo-Fi Music Quotes

I'm definitely a singer-songwriter. I'm somewhere in the vein between Elliott Smith and Jack Johnson.

Progression is important. I'm always going to play music in the general vein of rock'n'roll, but when I started I was very much associated with the West Coast lo-fi thing and I didn't want to get anchored in with anything that was just in vogue for the time being.

I do think music sounds better when it's on tape and more simply recorded.

If you go back and listen to the album 'Name' was on, there were a lot of garage songs on it.

Generally, I don't bother trying to keep up with prolific bands - but Thee Oh Sees demand it.

I remember when I first saw 'Guided by Voices'; those earlier recordings are so deconstructed, kind of like four-track music, and so artful in their collage and in their weird fragility.

Tame Impala's music revisits a time when guitar effects and studio tricks were music's newest frontiers; when rock was barely old enough to drive and violently threw conventional ideas out the window.

R Stevie Moore was obviously a huge influence and is still a very big influence in my life.

Eric's Trip is still a huge influence on me. The style of those recordings and the rawness of them is very inspiring. And the density of the distorted parts, amazing.

The whole slacker generation totally didn't apply to us musically.

The real reason I was lo-fi before was really just because that's what I could afford.

It's almost like, it's often the bad recording quality of things which makes them interesting.

Diane Cluck is part of the anti-folk movement in New York. She's got a really haunting voice, and she usually sings in the pentatonic scale.

Daniel Johnston is someone I discovered on YouTube that's weird but wonderful.

I used to like to make myself sad, so I would listen to Bill Callahan as Smog.

I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

It would be great to do a rock opera, but using more low-fi technology. I love shitty-sounding records.

The tools are evolving, and people's interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness. That isn't what they would describe what they're doing, but the fact is they make a virtue of the sort of hand-made nature of what they're doing.

My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you've just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and you know if you can work stuff out like that, if you can hammer out songs that sound good just with those three things and a voice, you're on your way.

It's really weird being placed into something like that because it was never an intention to make bedroom pop. I was just making music. All the people that have that genre placed on them are not the first people to have a home studio and and post it on the Internet.

Harmony Korine, the screenwriter, was really into my early work. I did a lot of stuff under the name Sentridoh and a lot of 4-track cassette stuff that he was into.