Where does that leave a garage rock auteur like Ty Segall, whose studied unfussiness and quick work-rate has been emblematic of the genre? Just this year, former crappy-sounding-drum-machine proponents Beach House added another layer of sheen to Teen Dream’s widescreen blueprint with Bloom, former GarageBand enthusiast Dylan Baldi made a pack with Steve Albini to pull off a fuller sound for Cloud Nothing’s Attack On Memory, and even former Vivian Girls associate Frankie Rose caught the critical buzz with an icy and neat synth-pop record. The bands that rode the trend that embraced the limitations of the mp3 – those crappy white iPod buds, and laptop speakers – are all taking a turn towards the polished. ![]() To be a lo-fi garage rock band in 2012 is to feel like you’re on the wrong side of history.
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