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

Lake Suburbia

‘Ridge’

indietronica/indie electronic

Aaron Sumlin

‘J T F’

neo soul/contemporary r&b

Gimme Gimme

‘So Far Away’

chillwave/bedroom pop

Little Destroyer

‘only way out’

alternative rock

SIDE B

Cai

‘Guidance for Appeal’

indie pop/alternative

Gwyn Love x La+ch

‘pttrn’

electro pop/wave

Reek Reefa

‘Highs N Lows’

rap/alt pop

Bo Weber & Yung Honi

‘100 Ways To Die’

trap/emo rap

I was going to tape some records onto a cassette, but I got the wires backwards. I erased the all of the records. When I returned them to my friend, he said, “Hey, these records are all blank.”

Steven Wright