Liz

it's very pleasing to see lo-fi indie pop back in the spotlight, away from the land of indie sleaze and returning to its gayer, kitschy, Velvet Underground-style roots. i know of Women but i never was as drawn into the music of a lot of bands of that late 00's garage rock period as i am here. it's not just about the sound - the songcraft is a lot more refined, and the echoy basement sound just increases its strange resonance rather than feeling like the primary selling point. Cindy Lee might be a fictional character but the songs are deeply sincere - this is not Ariel Pink. and the lo-fi sound elevates it out of the range of corny… More

one of those formative "fundamentally changed the way i see music" albums for me.

i have an older brother who suddenly became a very active, enterprising music listener around when he got his first job as a teen. we lived in a small, rural college town so he would listen to the local college radio station a lot and then go into the nearest big record store in the city with his bandmates to buy the records he could pick out. indie music was coming into its own around this time, tho Neutral Milk Hotel and its ilk hadn't really blown up online yet.

i was younger - around age 12 - and when he brought this album home i… More