no-fi

"People talk about lo-fi; this is really no-fi," says Ponderosa Stomp founder Dr. Ira Padnos.

Rock's Secret History 2008

Excellent no-fi, dirty, raw-as-fuck production, yet extremely annoying vocals.

The Fall 1999

Altered Zones , the Pitchfork spinoff Web site devoted to lo-fi and no-fi sounds, and - via DJ Screw's blurry pitch-shifting - on several strains of experimental electronic music, and even arty R&B and post-R&B.

NYT > Home Page By JON CARAMANICA 2011

The Rural Alberta Advantage, based in Toronto, share NMH's uplifting sense of no-fi abandonment in the face of personal anguish, as evinced on their excellent second album, Departing.

The Guardian World News Mark Beaumont 2011

This isn't some bullshit bedroom no-fi from randoms with a Myspace page; this is an honest-to-goodness product made by professional musicians with the intention of presenting it to an audience.

Cokemachineglow.com 2010

The San Diego quartet will be accompanied tonight by friends from overseas in no-fi UK noise rockers Male Bonding, whose first full length is due out on Sub Pop next month, making tonight the perfect evening to catch them before everyone else figures it out.

Seattlest Ian Chant 2010

The San Diego quartet will be accompanied tonight by friends from overseas in no-fi UK noise rockers Male Bonding, whose first full length is due out on Sub Pop next month, making tonight the perfect evening to catch them before everyone else figures it out.

Seattlest Ian Chant 2010

Midnite Vultures-especially since Beck shows up on two songs-if they didn't twitch around in such an unsexy way, or if they weren't slathered in greasy, no-fi distortion and rife with squealing, klaxon-like synth peals.

Chicago Reader 2010

That whole lo-fi, no-fi revolution that's been going on these past several months, with bands like Times New Viking, Vivian Girls and Wavves earning new respect for their purposely poorly recorded albums?

Faronheit 2009

Their no-fi Bombed-out reggae and dub reworkings are something I rarely get tired of but haven't heard a whole lot of after a big wave of them hit a couple years back, so when Entracte hit the deck it felt on spot immediately.

WFMU's Beware of the Blog 2009