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

Magic Bronson

‘ITILYN’

indie psych

Occult X

‘With U’

dream pop/indie

NORTH

‘Case of the Mundanes.’

indietronica/synthwave

SIDE B

Glom

‘Matches’

indie rock

Josh Fudge

‘Second Date’

indie pop/bedroom pop

Kowloon

‘Life in Japan’

indietronica/bedroom pop

Protonaut

‘It’s Not a Phase, Mom’

garage rock

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