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| | Lou Barlow : EMOH : The Ratio : Review : Darryl P. Domingo |
 | | As is well-documented, Lou Barlow recorded most of his previous solo material on eight-tracks, four-tracks, and, occasionally, on one-tracks “at home,” and the stripped-down, sparse, and often spotty results have come to be representative of “do-it-yourself-ishness,” of what it means to be lo-fi. |
 | | If Lou Barlow fans have liked, or have at least said that they liked his previous albums because of their stripped-down, sparse, and spotty quality, many have disliked, or have at least said that they dislike his latest album because it seems to eschew these qualities. |
 | | Lou Barlow should not, indeed cannot, revert back to his old trademarks: the awkward count-offs, the tape-hiss, the background noise, muddled vocals, sloppy guitars, and incomplete songs. |
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