Bedroom/lo-fi pop appreciation thread

[baremountain]

I'm curious how many of you ILFers enjoy or create bedroom pop or whatever the heck you wanna call it. I know Florist is an active member of this community, so there's gotta be another few of y'all here. I'd love to hear some of your favorite artists, especially ones who are local to your scenes.
If you're unfamiliar, there are a few labels worth digging into, the most notable probably being Orchid Tapes (https://orchidtapes.bandcamp.com/).
My personal favorite artist for the last year or two has been a guy named Spencer Radcliffe, who makes an incredible range of music from emo to ambient under various names - California Furniture, Spencer Radcliffe, & Blithe Field are his solo projects, but he plays/played with the bands Friendlys and Best Witches as well. The two most recent albums he's published are my favorite albums of last year and this year, Looking In (https://spencerradcliffe.bandcamp.com/album/looking-in) under his name and Face Always Towards The Sun (https://blithefield.bandcamp.com/album/ ... rd-the-sun) under the Blithe Field moniker, respectively. I think I've always enjoyed things that feel like they could fall apart at any second, or that border delirium, and Spencer really captures that energy better than almost anyone I can think of. His self titled music is in line with early Why? (Oaklandazulasylum and, to a lesser extent, Elephant Eyelash) or The Microphones, and my roommate put it best when he said "Blithe Field sounds like opiates feel". Check out the tracks "Folded" and "Other Side" off of Looking In if you're into the idea of 'pocket symphonies'.

I also just put out a split with another roommate which marked a change in my songwriting towards this style. You can check that out here: https://baremountain.bandcamp.com/album ... -pup-split . I made both those tracks using a dinky acoustic, a Critter & Gutiari Organelle, a floor tom on the first track, and an SP404 on the second.

Anyways, share your favorite bedroom pop-type music here, or share your own! Feel free to share recording/writing techniques as well.

[D.o.S.]

I liked stripes' record.

[tremolo3]

Khonnor is good.

[PeteeBee]

I really dig this sort of stuff. Stripes/florist was pretty much my introduction and I know very little in this world other than them. Listening to your songs now

[baremountain]

Khonnor is good.

Dang, I found a stream of their full length and yeah this is great!

I really dig this sort of stuff. Stripes/florist was pretty much my introduction and I know very little in this world other than them. Listening to your songs now

Haha I'm not quite on their level production-wise, but I hope you dug it!

[popvulture]

Cleaners from Venus are one of my all time faves in that genre. So much cheap drum machine (and real drums), noisy tape compression, warbly modulation goodness. The best.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0ocgW397qc[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkCDT9MmBzM[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z3a3D0S_Kk[/youtube]

[ThurberMingus]

This is one of my favorite genres of music. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone and (older) Car Seat Headrest are some of my favorites. I have a hard time finding anything but twee acoustic when I look for more of this type of stuff on my own, so the suggestions definitely are welcome! Let me find one of my songs I made.

https://soundcloud.com/walksman/lofeezy
There's some bedroom/lofi/noise gaze I made about a year ago.

[futuresailors]

Casiotone dude is awesome.

For shame that no ones mentioned Mirah yet. This album is a 4 track masterpiece.
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=Fl-vIhjS0Z4[/youtube]

Does the blow count? She's basically singing karaoke to herself.

[frodog]

Yes, this is/used to be my shit. Mirah is nice, been a while since I listened to them.. The Microphones, but then I like Woelv even more really. Hope she is doing good...

Orchid Tapes seems interesting, recognize a couple names. Coma Cinema I remember digging a few years back, must check in again there.

I used to literally make bedroom lo-fi pop on my four-track before, with toy synths, percussion objects and acoustic guitar. Then, like six years ago, I got sick of the whole thing and now I'm mostly a degenerated noise freak who prefers playing with my friends and pedz. But my own intimacy issues aside, if it's sad or noisy enough I will still listen to this sort of thing with a lil' sting in my heart 'cause I couldn't do it myself.

Graham Repulski has so many good songs and sounds so shit.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJce59ekiro[/youtube]

Cave Babies. See also: Watercolor Paintings (girl on the left).
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlXSekZCsjw[/youtube]

More love, Clyde Petersen and band.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSrhgR3cBE0[/youtube]

and many more but ok.

[tremolo3]

Khonnor is good.

Dang, I found a stream of their full length and yeah this is great!

If you are talking about Handwriting, yeaaaah. It's a bedroom project, the kid wrote that album when he was like 15.

[colossus]

Really digging all of this stuff (and it's all new to me, except Microphones). Pardon the shameless self-promotion, but you may dig two albums I did last summer:

https://ryanlaliberty.bandcamp.com/album/weird-storms
https://ryanlaliberty.bandcamp.com/album/echo-trips

A bit less poppy than a lot of the stuff here, but certainly lo-fi and weird and split between recorded in a bedroom and a living room

[OddKnowledge]

I used to live in this world for a while. I floated somewhere between lo-fi and twee, but when that project grew into a live band my love of noise and feedback took over. I'm way too embarrassed by it to share what name i used to record under though.

i was a fan of a lot of the releases from Asaurus records back in the early 00s. https://asaurus.bandcamp.com/music
Those early Pants Yell! albums were pretty awesome.

[rustywire]

Sebadoh III
Wu-Tang Clan Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Guided By Voices Bee Thousand
Sublime Robbin The Hood

Some may veer from *pop* sensibilities at times...but all are UNIMPEACHABLE

[frodog]

OddKnowledge, I agree that Pants Yell! were awesome, but I don't think they're either bedroom or lo-fi. As my own example, YHB, they're not really lo-fi either, I mean they've recorded with Karl Blau and such and always end up sounding good, but the earlier stuff is more stripped down.

This guy also, Jon Barba, makes badly recorded music enjoyable. At least for me, I only have the "Teen Worship" tape, which is mostly acoustic ditties about how much he loves Miley Cyrus.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHY4R4MAblk[/youtube]