re: Music Board's Albums of the Year

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Especially, when people say things like "lo-fi" as a genre, which it is not.

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It is a genre. See, here's its entry on allmusic:

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Most if not all of the bands you listed recorded their albums in studios, which by definition is not low fidelity.

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Well, I think you can record in a studio and still be lo-fi. Hell, the Rolling Stones recorded Exile in Main Street in a villa, it doesn't make it lo fi because they didn't record in a studio. It's the aesthetic which is important. Notably the four-track minimalism that marks lo fi. Things which are incredibly analog.

I'm also not sure why Cloud Nothings wouldn't qualify, as they are a "bedroom band" in the same vein as Wacahatchee. But whatever, I'm not too interested in labelling wars. If they aren't pure enough for you, then ok, I guess. No skin off my nose.

Jay Reatard is also dead, so he didn't put out an album this year.

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You say you don't connect with the newer stuff yet you post a list of the "best albums of 2012".

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Well, it's everyone's compiled ballot. And I said I don't connect with "modern hardcore", not that I don't connect with new music. My own ballot had the Evens as #2, and I was the only one who voted for it. Is that lo fi enough? Does that meet your definition of purity?

It's not "my" list. It's the board's. A consensus list will always, by neccesity, skew conservative. Odd ball choices don't get many votes and won't achieve consensus. Which is why I posted all of the albums that received a vote, to give credit to everyone's opinions.

No, I don't much like twee. No, I don't listen to the radio much. I have no idea if stuff I like gets played a lot because, well, I don't listen to a lot of radio to know. Maybe it does. Maybe it doesn't. Neither one would bother me much. I stopped trying to be cool 15 years ago.