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  • adjective Resembling garage music (amateur guitar rock).

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garage +‎ -y

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Examples

  • There's a math equation somewhere to explain the strange shuffle of the WS's - take some garagey niblets, rudimentary to the point of subliminal drummering, guitar work that bends like a contortionists belly, add some of that old, hard to convey "it" ness, and there you go.

    joegood Diary Entry joegood 2001

  • Yes, that's The Seers, they were a great live band, released two excellent albums of psychedelic garagey punk rock but sadly didn't really get anywhere, a bit like Godfathers,

    Word Magazine - Comments itfc1959 2010

  • Dum Dum Girls as a lo-fi solo project a couple years ago, but even on her earliest recordings the Los Angelena's sharp pop sensibility cut through the garagey guitar scuzz and primitive drum-machine beats.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • The result sounds kind of a lo-fi, garagey version of My Bloody Valentine.

    PopMatters 2010

  • Producer Martin Terefe helps guide him through the rockabilly-styled "Nowhere to Go," the garagey three-chord slam of "The Ones With the Light" and the aggressively rhythmic title cut.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • While whoever publishes Clinic's work might like to have a listen to the closing 'Run Gospel Singer' with relation to 'C.Q.', they might also feel a slab of envy at 'Wild Strawberries', built on repeated riffs, distorted vocals that simultaneously recall Ade Blackburn's gnomic vocalising and takes it several stages further and overdriven garagey thrash at the end of which it seems it's just a race to see who blinks first.

    The Line Of Best Fit Simon Tyers 2010

  • While whoever publishes Clinic's work might like to have a listen to the closing 'Run Gospel Singer' with relation to 'C.Q.', they might also feel a slab of envy at 'Wild Strawberries', built on repeated riffs, distorted vocals that simultaneously recall Ade Blackburn's gnomic vocalising and takes it several stages further and overdriven garagey thrash at the end of which it seems it's just a race to see who blinks first.

    The Line Of Best Fit Simon Tyers 2010

  • While whoever publishes Clinic's work might like to have a listen to the closing 'Run Gospel Singer' with relation to 'C.Q.', they might also feel a slab of envy at 'Wild Strawberries', built on repeated riffs, distorted vocals that simultaneously recall Ade Blackburn's gnomic vocalising and takes it several stages further and overdriven garagey thrash at the end of which it seems it's just a race to see who blinks first.

    The Line Of Best Fit Simon Tyers 2010

  • The recording is no different from the group's previous efforts in that Reynolds and crew dip into different territories; soft and sentimental singer/songwriter folk, animated and garagey rock and roll.

    Austinist 2010

  • Producer Martin Terefe helps guide him through the rockabilly-styled "Nowhere to Go," the garagey three-chord slam of "The Ones With the Light" and the aggressively rhythmic title cut.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

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