A way records feel rather than a category they belong to. Only listeners can say it.
Lo-fi is an aesthetic in music production, especially in indie rock, which uses low fidelity recording practices. Its use is usually due to the artist's financial limitations, with many lo-fi artists use inexpensive cassette tape recorders or tape decks for their music. The term was coined by WFMU DJ William Berger, who dedicated a half hour segment of his program to home-recorded music throughout the late 1980s under the name "Lo-Fi". As a term to describe a musical genre .