How to Use lo-fi in a Sentence

lo-fi

noun

• 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
• The title of this proficiently tense, lo-fi time-travel crime thriller reads like a promise of change, of overcoming past mistakes with the hope of an improved future.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 4 Oct. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024