How to Use lo-fi in a Sentence

lo-fi

noun
Definition of lo-finext
  • There is much to like in the artist’s lo-fi look for a Wednesday night in London.
    — Alice Newbold, Vogue, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Welcome to the age of lo-fi beats to take stimulants to.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Elephant shed light on the power of lo-fi and not playing by the rules of a studio.
    — Ron Hart, SPIN, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The recording is lo-fi and muffled; Link can be heard mewing in the background.
    — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The 10-track record pairs Conway’s rubbery flow with Wun Two’s dark and woozy beats, fit for a lo-fi, cult noir flick.
    — Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 22 Dec. 2023
  • There are better options now—but these lo-fi bagels still have a place in food culture.
    — Antara Sinha, Bon Appétit, 27 June 2023
  • Heavy hip-hop, grunge, lo-fi… there are many musical facets to j-hope as a solo artist.
    — Tamar Herman, Variety, 2 Mar. 2023
  • On record, Spill Tab is a compellingly lo-fi solo project for Chicha.
    — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The lo-fi pixel-art graphics sell the dank, eerie loneliness of this setting.
    — Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 5 June 2024
  • But for a lo-fi bagel, the 365 plain would do well on hectic mornings, stuffed in your kid's hand before shooing them off to school.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 27 June 2023
  • Of course, there’s a lo-fi way to make better hydration choices, too.
    — Bill Gifford, Men's Health, 12 June 2023
  • The lo-fi song also serves as a reassuring message to fans who have been by his side.
    — Vulture, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Plus, the lo-fi quality of some videos lends them a greater sense of authenticity.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 24 July 2023
  • It’s become my benchmark for finding the perfect balance between lo-fi and hi-fi.
    — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Their video clips are more lo-fi, their fashion is rooted in schoolyard streetwear and their music harks back to the R&B and garage sounds that dominated the charts in the early '00s.
    — Topher Gauk-Roger, Peoplemag, 20 June 2023
  • Our favorite cleaning products run the gamut from high-tech robot vacuums to lo-fi steel wool.
    — The Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors, Bon Appétit, 19 Feb. 2023
  • The lo-fi garage charm of their prior albums remains intact, but it’s augmented with a wider palette.
    — Brendan Hay, SPIN, 5 Sep. 2024
  • There’s also an inches-thick award-winning wine list to distract, just one of the lo-fi charms that makes the restaurant’s strict no-phone policy seem less enforced.
    — Adam Robb, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2023
  • This effect is achieved not via CGI or makeup but rather a life-sized marionette, a pleasingly off-putting lo-fi technique.
    — Michael Nordine, Variety, 28 June 2024
  • With heady ideas jockeying with creatively lo-fi visual effects, the movies in this series all deserve to be seen in a theater.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2024
  • There’s a certain cognitive dissonance to the notion of such lo-fi tech being used to create a spaceship hundreds of years in the future.
    — Sezin Devi Koehler, EW.com, 25 May 2024
  • The entertainment turns out to be a lo-fi puppet show, which Sam suffers in silence with her service cat Frodo sitting in her lap.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 27 June 2024
  • True to its origins, Blue Light Flotation remains a lo-fi operation.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Curbed, 8 Aug. 2023
  • But her music, which features lyrics in English and Spanish, draws more from hip-hop, lo-fi, indie-rock and late ‘90s R&B than any au courant electronic-music styles.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2023
  • But then their lo-fi demos started gaining traction online, which led to a deal with indie label Partisan Records.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The soundtrack usually varies between a relaxing lo-fi beat that Bragg will find on YouTube, or, to cater to the residents’ musical tastes, ‘80s music.
    — Ciara McCarthy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 July 2024
  • For example, soothing music would start playing when the windshield wipers are turned on — in essence, matching inclement weather with lo-fi beats for driving.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The song finds Abstract continuing to explore the contours of indie and alternative rock, with a simmering lo-fi guitar riff that gives way to the uneasy keen of a synth.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Then, a snippet which pictured JT from behind the stage curtain, thanking an audience over the sound of an old school analogue drum machine and lo-fi organ, lifted from the video’s intro.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The album’s lo-fi confessionals delve into heartbreak and childhood to tell the story of a life, pared back like field recordings retrieved from some ancient nomad dwelling.
    — Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 19 Mar. 2024

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