{"product_id":"the-great-psychic-outdoors-adventures-in-low-fidelity-9781914420603","title":"The Great Psychic Outdoors: Adventures in Low Fidelity","description":"\u003cb\u003eExplores the weird world of lo-fi music to investigate its revolutionary potential and its ability to subvert what we think music can do.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHomemade 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Great Psychic Outdoors, \u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Psychic Outdoors\u003c\/i\u003e shows what lo-fi says about us, our lives under capitalism and the strange ways we cope with pain, madness and beauty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEnrico Monacelli\u003c\/b\u003e is a philosopher and cultural critic. He is a PhD candidate at the Università degli Studi of Milan and writes regularly for \u003ci\u003eThe Quietus\u003c\/i\u003e. He was a founding member of the now-defunct occultural research unit Gruppo di Nun and worked with them on their \u003ci\u003eRevolutionary Demonology\u003c\/i\u003e (Urbanomic, 2022).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Repeater","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50568454144274,"sku":"9781914420603","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_331ef2ed-84db-43f0-8e69-e5a87e81c8ac.jpg?v=1731943619","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-great-psychic-outdoors-adventures-in-low-fidelity-9781914420603","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}