: the production or reproduction of audio characterized by an unpolished or rough sound quality
lo-fi
adjective
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The store item’s appearance comes after West reportedly spent $8 million on a lo-fi Super Bowl commercial for the Los Angeles area which featured West sitting in a dentist’s chair and asking people to go to his website.
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David Matthews, New York Daily News, 10 Feb. 2025
The lo-fi ad, which West said was shot with an iPhone, directed viewers to his brand’s yeezy.com website.
—Michael Schneider, Variety, 10 Feb. 2025
The Return provided a world big enough to encompass both the lo-fi hijinks of the Twin Peaks sheriff’s department and the utter darkness of hell on Earth.
—K. Austin Collins, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2025
The 90-second salvo is prototypical GBV, with frontman Robert Pollard and company concisely dispensing lo-fi riffs over the track, one of 17 songs on Universe Room, out Feb. 7.
—Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 5 Feb. 2025
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David Matthews, New York Daily News, 10 Feb. 2025
The lo-fi ad, which West said was shot with an iPhone, directed viewers to his brand’s yeezy.com website.
—Michael Schneider, Variety, 10 Feb. 2025
The Return provided a world big enough to encompass both the lo-fi hijinks of the Twin Peaks sheriff’s department and the utter darkness of hell on Earth.
—K. Austin Collins, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2025
The 90-second salvo is prototypical GBV, with frontman Robert Pollard and company concisely dispensing lo-fi riffs over the track, one of 17 songs on Universe Room, out Feb. 7.
—Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 5 Feb. 2025
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“Lo-fi.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lo-fi. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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