The Sweets: I Didn't Ask Your Permission To Date Your Sister (Single, 2014)

There are so many great cassette tape labels working today and it seems like more are constantly popping up everywhere. Of course the blogosphere, being the way that it is, likes to focus on only a couple of these labels as if they are the only ones worth mentioning. Bull honky. Dig a little deeper and you’ll find that labels like DZ Tapes have been quietly plugging away for years, churning out quality content. Just look at the quirky label’s most recent release, The Sweets’ Greatest Hits. The project of two brothers from Winston Salem, NC who, over the course of 2013, wrote and recorded over 50 tracks of lo-fi pop sweetness. For this cassette release on DZ Tapes, the Sweets decided to cull together the best 18 of those tracks and humorously slap a Greatest Hits title on it. Even paired down to 18 tracks through, a release that long can be a big chunk of music to digest. Fortunately this is a non-issue since the songs go down so easy. Recalling bands like Tyvek and maybe even some echoes of This Is It-era Strokes, The Sweets keep things simple yet varied. Really the whole thing is a joy to listen to, so if you dig on lo-fi bedroom pop then scoop this goofy little release up. You won’t regret it.