The Lowest Fidelity - Album Review: This Is The Life
Sometimes writing reviews is like Secret Santa, or a box of chocolates, or a Kinder Surprise. In the words of Tom Hanks, you never quite know you’re going to get. Often times you’re pleasantly surprised, like this one time I found The Lowest Fidelity’s music, hiding inside a psychedelic pig in a blue sweater.
When you’re going in to the review, if you’ve never heard of the band, you have a preconceived idea of how the music is going to sound judging by a band’s name or the song titles or the cover. Having never heard of The Lowest Fidelity, I could never have anticipated they would sound anything like this band does.
Take the Beatles. Give them some LSD and send them to India. Yeah, I know that already happened. The part you didn’t know is that while on some sort of transcendental trip the group met up with Jim Morrison and Keith Moon, and they were all transported to this foul year of our lord, 2016. While there, they formed a band called The Lowest Fidelity and released an album called This Is The Life.
While some of this story is a fabrication, it’s an accurate representation of how This Is The Life sounds. What Will Saunders and his crew have crafted, or rather birthed, given the raw feel of the album, is eight pieces of Psychedelic Rock n’ Roll that sound straight out of the Sixties. Granted there is more energy and angst than the mainstream ever heard out of the Beatles, which gives the music a sort of controlled chaos vibe.
You need to find this band. Not even kidding. Try Bandcamp.
About The Lowest Fidelity
They have released one album This Is The Life and in 2016 played live support to U.S acts Fred & Toody Cole (Dead Moon) and The Reverend Horton Heat along with having previously toured with NZ bands The Situations and The Transistors.
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