Local cassette-only label Lillerne Tapes has put out more than 30 releases since 2007, which include music from Chicago’s Squish (recently signed to HoZac), Kansas City’s Cvlts, and more than a dozen other like-minded weirdos scattered across the midwest. Lillerne doesn’t exactly have a unified aesthetic, but its output usually seems to skew toward “hotbox your bedroom” foggy soundtrack drones and “no bongwater allowed on the Casio” tilted pop jams. The label’s second compilation, Lillerne Compilation #2 (duh), consists of exclusive tracks by 22 artists; it came out in a tiny physical edition two weeks ago and sold out almost immediately. We missed it! We must have been in a secondhand-smoke daze! But now we’re awake . . . and instead of gnashing our big teeth, we’ve copped a free download of the comp via the label’s Bandcamp page.
