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
good son
‘re: beginnings and endings’
indie
The Deckadent Movement
‘Some Soul’
techno/electro
Tallulah.
‘Hysteria’
indie rock
Cloud Chamber Experiments
‘Curling’
post punk/new wave
SIDE B
Bee Bee Sea
‘Gonna Get Me’
indie rock
Coastgoth Community Center
‘Come Out w/ Me’
bedroom pop/new wave
boy pablo
‘Honey’
indie pop/bedroom pop
Henry Bowers-Broadbent
‘Cruiser’
jazztronica/’future funk’/downtempo
I don’t like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I’m recording to two-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.
M. Ward