???????? – Mystery Batch #2 // Limited to 100 Cassettes
Spring Break Tapes is at it again with their Mystery Batch series. There's nothing to say about this, yet here I am... writing away... the artists this…
Experimental
Bent Folk – Why / Liar / Gone // Limited to 45 White Cassettes
Bent Folk, led by Dick Whyte, is a New Zealand fringe folk project specializing in sprawling acoustic experiments reminiscent of early Bonnie 'Prince' …
Birdy Earns – Nachtangst // Limited Edition White Cassette
Birdy Earns his keep on Nachtangst and my attention, and probably a good amount of play time while I'm at grinding away at work. I got a bit excited th…
Treasure Hunt – DJ Waste // Limited Edition Black Cassette
A thought that may cross your mind when you turn this on is "What in God's name am I listening to?" Perhaps you think that with everything I write up..…
Yutani – Yutani // Limited Edition Red Cassette
I don't know about you, but I instantly jump to thinking about Weyland-Yutani when I see this band name. I only saw Alien last year, so perhaps it's a …
Yellow Hyper Balls – Think About Death // Limited to 50 Yellow Cassettes
Yellow Hyper Balls want you to think about death for about thirty minutes. Of course, you can think about it for longer if you so please. Think About D…
Supervolcano – The Vault // Limited Edition Clear Cassette
Whenever I see "vault" now, I just think of Fallout so the picture this album paints for me is Fallout-esque. The Vault sounds like the first moments a…
entrail – 100 Years Remaining // Limited to 100 Clear Black Cassettes
100 Years Remaining is a melancholic meditation on a funeral procession that has yet to happen. At least that's how I take it. The electric guitar is p…
维新噩梦工厂 – 经典广告 // Limited to 30 Double Cassettes
I figured it's about time I checked back in on Celldeath. It's Friday. I'm fried... but still pulling OT tomorrow. This album is a fever dream, and thi…
Lisa – Lisa // Limited Edition Black Cassette
Lisa is an otherworldly take on R&B, but don't call it PBR&B. Like Kode9 or Andy Stott, their music can land in a ballpark but it's like someon…
Cloudface – VARIATIONS // Limited to 100 Cassettes
It's Friday - Good Friday to be exact. Sunday's Easter. You may have noticed a noticeable absence at work today, if not yesterday as well. Perhaps they…
Time Heals Nothing – Time Heals Nothing // Limited Edition Cassette
"Is it a crime?" as "crime" croons over and over again backed by a droning organ. Time Heals Nothing flexes its vaporwave chops and shows the genre's s…
Pear. 夫婦 – Maid of Gold (ost) // Limited Edition Transparent Yellow Cassette
I'm all about this. Especially since I'm playing Persona 5 right now - get it if you don't already have it. The soundtrack, and frankly everything else…
ORM-D – Daigoro // Limited Edition Clear Black Cassette
I think it's safe to say the 80s are very much in vogue. It's not farfetched to say that Stranger Things is helping it along, but the 80s nostalgic zei…
Vaperror – Mana Pool // Limited to 200 White Cassettes
Update 4/6: New batch of 200 on white cassette since the blue batch sold out! This will be Vaperror's first physical release since his abrupt depa…
Grimoire-esque – Etcetera EP // Limited to 50 Cassettes
Grimoire-esque's Etcetera EP is hard to pin down - I guess it has a fitting name, what-with et cetera being able to entail a variety of items. The clos…
Computer Graphics – Lo-Fi // Limited Edition of 200 Blue Cassettes
Dream Catalogue has been installing dreams into your brain since 2014 (or was it 2814?) and have been steadily increasing the amount of releases out ea…
t e l e p a t h and HKE – 愛慕 ／ 悲哀 // Limited to 200 Black Cassettes / 2017 Reissue
BLCR Laboratories has for us a fresh cassette reissue of t e l e p a t h and HKE's early 2015 split album! This edition might be the nicest qualit…
Canoe – Chiracahua Wilderness // Limited Edition Black Cassette
Chiracahua Wilderness almost didn't come out, but thanks to Always Human Tapes (who seem to be releasing something every time I blink) it's here to gra…
Ewa Justka – Acid Smut // Limited to 60 Cassettes
That banana to the far right is just right for me. I like bananas with a lot of specks. Now the middle one is something I'd go for if a) I was feeling …