Which 8 current gems will make it on this Hip Cassette round-up? Plug that rusty tape player in, press play and make sure you keep notes…
by Christos Doukakis
SIDE A
Super Cassette
‘Be Gay, Do Drugs, Hail Satan’
lo-fi rock/indie
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Magic Bronson
‘ITILYN’
indie psych
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Occult X
‘With U’
dream pop/indie
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NORTH
‘Case of the Mundanes.’
indietronica/synthwave
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SIDE B
Glom
‘Matches’
indie rock
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Josh Fudge
‘Second Date’
indie pop/bedroom pop
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Kowloon
‘Life in Japan’
indietronica/bedroom pop
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Protonaut
‘It’s Not a Phase, Mom’
garage rock
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My brother came home from college with a Mountain Goats cassette and I was like, ‘What is this?’ The lyrics were crazy to me. I’d never heard anything like it.
Aesop Rock