Lo-Fi Beats in a Hi-Fi World

Leon Wu
5 min readDec 13, 2019

An internet-based genre of chill music helps people to destress and focus

Photo by Jamakassi on Unsplash

I’m quoted in The Washington Post!

It’s 9pm. I sit at my desk to work on an article. My laptop is dimly lit by a tungsten lamp. Beside it, a cup of green tea. This is my happy place. I turn on a playlist of lo-fi hip hop beats to complete my restorative setup. The steady rhythms and chill vibes are the aural…

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