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Brooklyn-based songwriter Katie Von Schleicher's debut solo full-length was described by many critics as "lo-fi," which was true only in the most literal sense. Shitty Hits, released in 2017, was recorded on a Tascam 4-track cassette machine in a dark room, and it had the crackling white noise to prove it. But Von Schleicher's work, both alone and with her band Wilder Maker, is more ambitious than the lo-fi tag usually implies. Her songs are carefully constructed, intensely dramatic, and, even when she only has four tracks at her disposal, arranged for a full band, which Von Schleicher occasionally pushes so far that it sounds orchestral.