
One downside of modern recording technologies is that there are so few bands that sound truly lo-fi, like The Mountain Goats, Refrigerator, Tall Dwarfs and so many others did in the mid 1990s, when young me in my bedroom found the barely produced two- or four-track recordings made the bands somehow more relatable. So I was glad to discover Healing & Peace (Alex Mussawir from Columbus, Ohio) who sounds old-fashionedly lo-fi like the aforementioned bands and, because there is a small dose of blues in his songs, a bit like Railroad Jerk, too. Which is fun.