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
Tala Silva
‘Forever’
bedroom pop
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Werwe
‘Speed of Light’
art rock/synth-pop
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Astrolemo
‘Wild Brunch’
trip-hop/indie electronic
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Tennin
‘Totally’
indie r&b/trip-hop
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SIDE B
Cloud Vincent
‘Can You Get Over Him?’
pop-rock/alternative
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Van Berg
‘Obnoxious’
indie rock
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S.B. Olson
‘Night Talking’
bedroom pop/instrumental
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Tommy Strauser
‘Futile Prophets’
experimental rock/instrumental
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If at noon you sit down and there’s just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn’t exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There’s something empowering about that.
Eddie Vedder