Lo-Fi Music and Escaping Capitalism: Foucault and Marx Meet Boards of Canada and Daniel Johnston

Craig from Acid Horizon sit down with Enrico Monacelli to discuss
his new book, 'The Great Psychic Outdoors: Lo-Fi Music and
Escaping Capitalism'.

From the book:
https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-great-psychic-outdoors/


Homemade records, tape-hiss worship and a taste for a very
peculiar kind of psychedelia have carved themselves a weird niche
in the contemporary musical landscape under the name of
lo-fi.

This genreless genre, characterized by poor recordings and rough
sounds, spanning from the most extreme heavy metal to the
sweetest ear-candies pop can offer, has become a solid presence
in our collective sensibility. And yet, it has largely been
neglected: this staunch refusal of anything hi-fi and hi-tech has
fallen under the radar of the categories we use to analyse
ourselves and our times.

The Great Psychic Outdoors, dedicated to the most interesting and
controversial artists in this movement, will rectify this
injustice and vindicate the revolutionary potential of lo-fi
music, engaging with this weird genre on its own terms and facing
head on the contradictions and possibilities of this
multi-faceted phenomenon. Confronting the aesthetic and
conceptual stakes of this sonic craft, The Great Psychic Outdoors
shows what lo-fi says about us, our lives under capitalism and
the strange ways we cope with pain, madness and beauty.

https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-great-psychic-outdoors/


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​Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ and
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