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
Emmrose
‘Waitlisted’
electro pop
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The New Division
‘Stateside’
synth-pop/’wave’
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Edwin Rosen
‘Verschwende deine Zeit’
new wave/’wave’
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Great Barrier
‘EPHEMERA’
indietronica/bedroom pop
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SIDE B
Juhan Ongbrian
‘Home Home Home’
instrumental hip-hop/vaporwave
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Ryan Montbleau
‘Off to the Races’
alt-americana
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The City
‘I’m Too Kind’
alternative rock
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The Zolas
‘Yung Dicaprio’
indie rock/alternative
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I got a new 4-track cassette recorder a year or so after high school. For a while I would just stare at it thinking, how am I going to do this if I don’t play guitar or keyboards? How am I going to write and record a song if I don’t know how to play any instruments? I mean, I played the violin, but I didn’t know anything about how to work a 4-track.
Petra Haden