UNCLE SHUG SAYS:

Holy moly. Emerging from an era of tube TVs and manual rewinding of magnetic cassette tape is a freethrow plethora of dream-pop from one of the few parts of Indiana that isn’t a f*cking cornfield, Bloomington. However, location means nothing when it comes to the powerhouse of home recording we have here protruding from the midwest. If anything, it’s a beautiful reminder that the future remains brighter and brighter as recording technology becomes more and more available to a wider (and growing) audience of talent. Compiling HOOPS’ very first three tapes into wax discs of flying saucer-rivaling, spacy transcendence into a certain long-distance relationship spanning from the likes of our Purp Lord, Prince all the way to Brit-pop bedroom cassette legend, The Cleaners from Venus. So, with a gap that wide, one might start to ask some questions, but here’s the thing-you’re curious now, right? Shock and absorb, baby. Sale psychology aside, this is truly a blast from the past through the talent of today. Truly there is a whole lot more to our beautiful midwest than our cornfields and Culver’s. Shoot you some HOOPS.

FFO:  Billy Idol, Ariel Pink, The Cure, DIIV, Mild High Club, Svengoolie movies, cassette (or cassette aesthetic), The Cleaners from Venus, John Maus, Back to the Future part II, that good new-wave your mom listens to sometimes amidst all the Bob Segar she won’t stop playing whenever you come to visit

HOOPS – Tapes #1​-​3

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