One of the best aesthetics of punk-rock (with a dash) is how it began, and maintained to this day, that YOU control your own fate. You wanna play guitar in a band? Do it. You wanna do your own magazine? Do it. You wanna record label? FUCKING DO IT!!!
One day to the next, the landscape of punk-rock and all of its associated sub-genres, things change fast. One day, Jonathan Stout mentioned a project he wanted to do and then, without funding, without press release, without any hesitation; LO-FI CITY was 'realized' and given instant validity because at least one person (proly more) made it so.
Matthew Archibalds All In The Red is just one of the hand-made, severely limited CD-Rs featuring four songs recorded in a basement where you can hear the familiar grounding buzz of amplifiers that gives Red the validity of something in the here-now. It's more. Much more...
It would be easy to look-up and then regurgitate a whole slew of this-n-that about who Matthew Archibald is and background info which, of course, would include what bands he is in, or came from and all-that, because Mr. Stout had surely told me and I didn't have it in my heart to just tell him that I wasn't really listening to him because he didn't have a toboggan on and I was admiring his thick, exposed, full-head of thick, shiny hair.
The four songs on this CD-R solidify the conspiracy that Steve Malkmus of Steve Malkmus & The Jicks fame is, perhaps, a clone of John Lennon who joins the 96.7% that dig Guided By Voices. The jams on Red reek of honesty, virtue, rawness and as loser/go-nowhere anthems of truth, justice and admissions of suicidal thoughts One of the best aesthetics of punk-rock (with a dash) is how it began, and maintained to this day, that YOU control your own fate, you wanna play guitar in a band? Do it. You wanna do your own magazine? Do it. You wanna record label? FUCKING DO IT!!!
One day to the next, the landscape of punk-rock and all of its associated sub-genres, things change fast. One day, Jonathan Stout mentioned a project he wanted to do and then, without funding, without press release, without any hesitation; LO-FI CITY was 'realized' and given instant validity because at least one person (proly more) made it so.
Matthew Archibalds' All In The Red is just one of the hand-made, severely limited CD-Rs featuring four songs recorded in a basement where you can hear the familiar grounding buzz of amplifiers that gives Red the validity of something in the here-now.
It would be easy to look-up and then regurgitate a whole slew of this-n-that about who Matthew Archibald is and background info which, of course, would include what bands he is in, or came from and all-that, because Mr. Stout had surely told me and I didn't have it in my heart to just tell him that I wasn't really listening to him because he didn't have a toboggan on and I was admiring his thick, exposed, full-head of thick, shiny hair.
The four songs on this CD-R solidify the conspiracy that Steve Malkmus of Steve Malkmus & The Jicks fame is, perhaps, a clone of John Lennon who joins the 96.7% that dig Guided By Voices. The jams on Red reek of honesty, virtue, sonic-rawness and as loser/go-nowhere anthems of truth, justice and admissions of suicidal thoughts and actions all-set to a musical background that includes ample, great sounding, harmonica skills. My eyes are open and more importantly, my ears even more.
Check the links below, which includes a new release from Lo-Fi house-band Dinosaurs and Thunder if you haven't already that is...
http://loficity.bandcamp.com
