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