{"id":5303,"date":"2012-09-25T10:14:37","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T16:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=5303"},"modified":"2012-09-25T10:14:37","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T16:14:37","slug":"merch-table-delight-back-to-lo-fi-2007-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2012\/09\/25\/merch-table-delight-back-to-lo-fi-2007-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Merch Table Delight \u2013 Back to Lo-Fi (2007-2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span id=\"internal-source-marker_0.08455147594213486\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-5304\" href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2012\/09\/25\/merch-table-delight-%e2%80%93-back-to-lo-fi-2007-2012\/merch\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5304\" title=\"merch table delite\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/merch-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Remember the times when you\u2019d hang out in your friend\u2019s basement for hours fiddling around with guitars and recording your ideas on a cheap computer mic &#8211; then add sound bites from your favorite movies or tv shows and share it with your friends? No? Then <em>Back to Lo-Fi (2007-2012)<\/em> isn\u2019t going to give you the nostalgic experience it gave me.<!--more--> What it does deliver is the lo-fi basement sound that you really have to be a part of to appreciate. Comprised of <a href=\"http:\/\/merchtabledelite.bandcamp.com\/album\/back-to-lo-fi-2007-2012\" target=\"_blank\">eighteen tracks <\/a>and most clocking in at less than three minutes, you would expect something more energetic from <em>Back to Lo-Fi<\/em>, but only a couple of tracks really stand out. Merch Table offers some Courtney Taylor-Taylor style vocals on tracks like \u201cDo It For The Money,\u201d giving it a Dandy Warhols feel &#8211; or maybe a Brian Jonestown Massacre mockery of Dandy Warhols. The way the vocal hovers over the music brings Thurston Moore to mind, while \u201cKate Winslet and the American Accent\u201d is a pretty good noise track that could pass for old Sonic Youth.<br \/>\nBut wait! Things get more interesting over the course of five hidden tracks. One of them is a recording of someone, whom I imagine is the singer, crashing the MuchMusic VJ search. The last and best track is a much better recording of a previous song called \u201cAll the Way With Stephanie Kaye\u201d (a must listen for all of you <em>Degrassi Junior High<\/em> fans). If you like lo-fi tracks then I would sooner recommend Merch Table Delite\u2019s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/merchtabledelite.bandcamp.com\/album\/umfm-sessions-ep\" target=\"_blank\">UMFM Sessions EP<\/a><\/em>. \u00a0It has the energy of a full band that this disc is lacking. \u00a0When it comes to a project like this one, a rough sound is what you aim for, a basement is your studio, and your fans are your friends. That\u2019s worth bringing back. (No Label, <a href=\"http:\/\/merchtabledelite.bandcamp.com\" target=\"_blank\">merchtabledelite.bandcamp.com<\/a>) <strong>Matthew Dyck<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the times when you\u2019d hang out in your friend\u2019s basement for hours fiddling around with guitars and recording your ideas on a cheap computer mic &#8211; then add sound bites from your favorite movies or tv shows and share it with your friends? No? Then Back to Lo-Fi (2007-2012) isn\u2019t going to give you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[562,563,671],"class_list":["post-5303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-lo-fi","tag-local","tag-no-label"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}