Rip It Off

Nice Lo-Fi album with an extreme amount of distortion. Something for people that like Guided by Voices. Songs vary between a good and ok quality (3-3.5 stars).

Reminds me of a garage rock era that has long since passed, and evoked some Thermals, early OCs, and plenty of other pioneers in the lo-fi rock space. While lacking in cohesion, this LP makes up for its disparate tracks with an overwhelming sense of momentum and a slacker kind of urgency, fulfilling some sort of unspoken need to get the ideas onto tape before they whither into thin air. It's messy, raw, and plenty of users here are going to hate it, but I love this kind of guerilla musicianship and felt so reinvigorated listening to this album – much better than some of the compressed, carefully packaged, and insipid efforts that have been added to the list!

In the best way possible, this sounds like it's being blasted out of someone's transistor radio that they dropped out of a building onto uneven concrete.

I didn't dislike this, it had a lot of energy and charm. That much fuzz and distortion covers a multitude of sins though, and filters out a lot of nuance. In particular I didn't get much out of it lyrically, whatever might have been there. A bunch of noisy indie lofi pop influences came to mind, from Hüsker Dü to Pavement to Sebadoh to Guided By Voices.. not bad company in my book but also already a whole lot to choose from in that bag. I wouldn't object to hearing more of this, not sure I'd make the effort though.

This doesn't particularly cover any new musical ground, but it's ragged and noisy in all the right ways. I enjoyed it. Fave Songs: (My Head), Teen Drama, Relevant: Now, Another Day, Come Together

Bloody hell, can you get any more lo-fi? It was like being on hold to a punk dentist office. But I did like it, cool stuff.

Shitgaze more like yeahprettygoodactuallygaze am I right fellas?

Pre-listen thoughts: - times new viking isn't a particularly clever name - this has really low plays on Spotify so it's probably the submitting user's band - looks like something something hipsters. Ok we've got some big fuzz garage rock type thing. A few songs in and so far we've had noise, some dissonance, gang vocals that for some reason get buried in the mix. Actually, to be fair, EVERYTHING is buried in the mix here. They must have recorded the album and run the entire thing through a fuzz pedal. Why? Dunno. Guess they thought it was art. Eh this stuff is really only borderline music, and I'm gonna treat it as such. 1/5.

I have a soft spot for these types of albums because they feel so earnest and scrappy. For 30 minutes I’m just imagining 3-5 friends in a garage covered with blankets and each of them has enough talent and skill to make something good despite it sounding like it was recorded on a Nintendo ds. Very dinner in America vibes (great movie btw)

Behold: shitgaze. Following the lo-fi recording production of slacker rock in tandem with the laissez faire approach to performing their songs, shitgaze took these ideas to their logical conclusion. Lo-fi to the point of noise, slacker to the point of incomprehensibility, and a whole barrel of fun. Sometimes its barely comprehendible but in a good way. Sometimes it isn't comprehendible at all but still finds a way to be good. Noise being wielded to such an extreme degree while still being purposefully poppy is such a fascinating thing that I can't help but enjoy it. After a while it all starts to blur together but I think that's part of the appeal. Hulking mass of music that isn't trying to be inaccessible or fucked up. It's just a few musicians having a good time and blasting the volume on everything. CONTENDER FOR THE LIST: Nooo too niche I'm afraid.

This was kind of strange and unexpected and elements reminded me of MBV. Which I liked! I wasn't totally in love with it but definitely appreciated a lot about it

Real fuzzy amateur garage indie rock vibes. Not bad and I could see it really hitting if you were in the mood!

It's gloriously lofi and it has some perfectly good songs. Not blown away by it, but I'd not skip if I heard them again.

Hard to listen to.

This one just didn’t click with me.

Didn't do anything new or exceptional

Rating: 5/10

At the first song, I thought: interesting sound. But as the album progressed, I grew tired of it very fast

Didn't care for this at all, sorry. 2 stars.

Wow… couldn’t understand much of the lyrics and didn’t appreciate the music. Unfortunately it isn’t something I can get into.

My favorite part was the band name. Did not care for the album. Their sound got tiring.

What is this awful production?

Indie rock, lo-fi, noise pop. Ruido absurdo. Un 1.

This was pretty rough to listen to. It starts okay on the first few songs but then it devolves into inaudible screaming and chaotic instrumentals that are hard to enjoy. Overall it’s just not a good album from really any perspective, except for j guess the person that chose this album. 2.8/10

Well that was unbearable 1

You know it’s going to be good when the Wikipedia page simply exists to give the album title and track listing

It was 30 minutes of snippets of fuzzy musical noise. I wasn’t attracted enough to pick apart the lyrics. Dismissed.

I don’t mind noise. I’m not an audio snob. But a bad recording is a bad recording.