“For all of indie rock's iconoclast ambition and pretension, the genre has been able, time and again, to inexplicably produce bands whose music has risen to monumentally epic heights. Throughout the 90s, benchmark indie groups like Pavement, Archers of Loaf, Sebadoh, and Guided by Voices all adopted an unapologetically lo-fi aesthetic in order to not only combat the monotony of the mainstream with ”
