- DIY
- Lo-fi
- Alternative pop
- Indie pop
- Electro-indie
- Psychedelic pop
- Bedroom pop
- Acid pop
Comment: this 6-track EP reflects upon naivety and playfulness which was partly prevalent within the lo-fi and DIY compartment in
the end of the 00s and the beginning of the 10s. Cheap synths, clumsy rhythmic
setups, volatile singing and spacey guitar twangs constitute something
magnificent which might not to have born due to the rough predispositions. Those
synths atop the rhythms chime almost like the outcomes from an 8-bit/tracker
outing. It is both hirsute and unagitated simultaneously thereby reminding a
bit the C-86 movement in the mid-80s. I guess it was ironic faith in their
doings with regard to the both movements. Of course, at the time the issue was
released a few indie, psychedelic and free folk artists were able to surpass
the influence and traces of untamed energy of Animal Collective. However, those
traces could be harked back even more further to The Russian Futurists (Matthew
Adam Hart), and even the Magnetic Fields (Stephin Merritt), and His Name Is
Alive (Warren Defever), for instance. Traces of the aforementioned influences
are especially up at Simple Things to
Live By. The more you listen to the whole the more poppy and catchy it gets
and more immersed one gets in it. I guess one of the secrets of it might be related
to the fact of being freed from hi-fi hermetic, and quite predictable production.
Let`s enjoy this lo-fi greatness having a notch in the discography of Rack And
Ruin Records (rrr009).