Lo-fi pioneers unite: Dino DiMuro finally unleashes his head-trippy avant-rock concept album ELMWOOD, twenty years after abandonment, while Song for a Gorgeous Blonde teeters on lofi piano and backward guitars in a poetic tribute to Ingrid Bergman, and their fractured LARS 3 channels Beefheart and Gentle Giant with twisted melodies and broken beats. Mythical Motors marks twenty years of pioneering crushed lofi power-pop — the unsung godfather of a movement now finally catching up. Zenxith delivers more whispered, chorus-drenched jangle on his 19th DIY album, and Snatch the Snail strips it all back — no metronome, pure feel.
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“For 20 years, the unsung, absolute pioneer of the current jangly, lofi power-pop movement...”
“Lars again reaches back to the heyday of fractured experimental rock a la Gentle Giant, Beefheart and Material.”
“I live by a river that is not a river. It's called New River. And it's not new either. Celebrating all waterways, new rivers or otherwise.”