No use pussyfooting around about this, so we’ll just come out and say it: RetroLowFi is gonna be going through some changes.

While these changes occur behind the scenes, you may notice the amount of articles slowing down a bit. We’ll still be the lovable lil’ website that could, but there will be some big differences soon. We’ll be adding some categories while dropping other ones altogether. And we’ll also be implementing some semblance of a rating system shortly. We feel that this will only make the site more exciting, and trust us… you’ve never seen this rating system before. We hope.

Possibly the biggest change coming: we can no longer guarantee that anything you send us will be reviewed. This is going down for the following reasons: We’re getting too much mail and when you have a higher quantity of records to sift through, the more mediocre they tend to become. No offense. But if you send us a mediocre record, we’re gonna write a boring review. Who wants to read boring articles about things that the writers couldn’t care less about?

So from now on, it’s this simple: if none of the RLF writers have a strong opinion about what you’ve sent us in the mail, we’re not gonna talk about it. Plain and simple. And in turn, that means that if we give you a birght and shiny recommendation to the blogosphere at large, you can sleep well at night knowing that you’ve just pleased some of the toughest web critics around!

Don’t worry. If you’ve sent us an album, a book or a film that’s been postmarked by today - April 30th - it’ll likely get reviewed, and we’ll at least be civil about it. We might do it in the short takes category, because we’ve got quite a few things to get to. And it’s not as if everything we’ve been sent recently is bad or anything, but… man, you’d think some people would at least *look* at our site before deciding to stuff their record into a padded mailer.

So, now the challenge begins. Do you think you’ve made a phenomenal piece of art that will turn the world on it’s ear? Great! Send it to us, and we’re gonna tell the world about it. And keep in mind: we still do not review albums sent to us in an mp3 format. If you don’t think enough of your album to go to the post office so it can be heard, we’re not interested in it either. Unless you’re, like, sending us unheard Kirsty Maccoll recordings. In that case, send us all the zip files our inbox can handle.

Other than that… our ethos is the same, and we still have one goal in mind: telling you about the things we think you will like. As an editor here at RetroLowFi, I can’t thank you enough for all the support you’ve shown us in the last few years. Above all else, we’re here for you… and we thank you for being here for us.