My Girls R Lo-Fi
...with a flurry of activity as of late, Poptek Records is becoming quite the source of lo-fi pop in the Gem City. One of its most prodigious sources of lo-fi goodness, Kris N., picked up one of our favorite tracks of 09 so far, Animal Collective's "My Girls", from the highly-touted Merriweather Post Pavillion album and stripped it down from its dancefloor incarnation back to the AC we remember from the Sung Tongs days. The track is being offered as part of the Kris N. Song of the Month initiative and you can grab the track and lots more from Kris N. for FREE HERE. Kris N. is keeping busy these days as next week he'll be celebrating the release of his new album, Lo-Fi Movement, with a show at Canal Street Tavern on April 23. See you there...
MP3: Kris N. "My Girls" (Animal Collective cover)
Labels: Animal Collective, Kris N., Poptek Records
posted by meltones @ 11:36 AM
9 Comments:
poptek is cool. this blog, however seems to be going in the wrong direction. instead of writing about dayton, why don't you take a decidedly more 'pitchfork' direction and post news from all over?
Kris N needs to read to read a newspaper while they still exist: it isn't 1992 anymore, there is no "lo-fi movement". Yeah, GBV was great, get the fuck over it. Maybe this town would put out more good music if we stopped sucking pollard's dick for one half of a split fucking second.
Umm, that is like telling Seattle to get over Nirvana. Why do we need to "get over it"? Why are you even linking the two very different bands in the first place? Sounds like you have a little something on your shoulder named "chip".
I don't mean that we should stop listening to GBV, or that we should stop being influenced by GBV. That's not what I am saying. I'm saying that we should stop writing songs called "Bob Pollard's Old Drunk Drivers" and doing a piss poor job of copying Pollard's production style. I mean that Kris N should stop pretending that there is a "Lo-Fi Movement" anywhere outside of his own brain.
Yeah, it's not 1992 anymore. Lo-fi has been proven to not be a temporary trend. It's 2009 and loads of people are still successfully doing it. It's an alternative to overcompressing and overproducing the shit out of music so that it winds up making everyone's records sound the exact same. Dressing like a retarded fourth grader, now that's a trend.
Linking lo-fi to Pollard's dick holds as much water as linking feedback to Hendrix's dick. You lose.
I don't think that Kris N. is trying to copy Pollard's style at all. If you read the interview he just gave, he records that way because he likes hearing his kids in the backround and because he can't afford going to a studio. "lo-Fi movement" is simply the name of his record. Kris is a pretty humble guy, I seriously doubt that he believes that he is apart of any movement at all. I think he just likes to write music, and that is that.
Actually the album title "Lo-Fi Movement" comes from one of Kris's songs. The lyrics are very tongue-in-cheek. So to think that Kris is making some cultural statement is just silly. A good pop song is timeless though so I don't completely understand the "it's not 1992 anymore" argument.
As Kris's drummer, I can say that he is much more influenced by Tim Kinsella. I don't think Pollard is much of an influence at all beyond that natural stuff that happens from living in the same town as someone so well-known in the music world. When listening to both of them I don't hear any similarities between Kris N. and GBV beyond the lo-fi aesthetic. They don't write songs in at all the same manner and to me the progressions and melodies show an artist's influence, not the recording sound.
Putting Pollard's name in the song title is more about the celebrityism he has in Dayton. That song title isn't really all that gracious after all. The lo fi thing is more about circumstance than trying to be like someone else. Kris has a wife and three kids to take care of. He has a lot of more important things to spend money on than recording time. Recording quality has nothing to do with the quality of a pop song anyway, so there's no point. Plus his kitchen recordings very much make sense considering how much of a family man he is.
"He has a lot of more important things to spend money on than recording time. Recording quality has nothing to do with the quality of a pop song anyway, so there's no point. Plus his kitchen recordings very much make sense considering how much of a family man he is."
Bingo. And this is why lo-fi is so great.
production style shouldn't define a band, I think that's pretentious nonsense. good tunes are good tunes regardless of how they're "produced."
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