Polishing up a lo-fi sound that brought your fans to you in the beginning isn’t always the easiest thing to do. You risk losing not only your original fan base and critics' ears, but a lot of your identity within a genre. If, on the other hand, you never really could be aptly categorized in a genre, then a little refurbishing might just be what is needed to catch those critics' and new fans' ears to send you into... read more
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