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markrichardson:

If you lived in the Pacific Northwest in 1995 and you owned an 8-bit sampler and a 4-track cassette recorder and you really liked new wave, maybe you spent your idle weekend afternoons making music like this. The is the tiny and forgotten home-recording indie pop project Sukpatch. The song is “Hollow Tips”, the album is Haulin’ Grass and Smokin’ Ass. I have doubts as to whether this is “good,” I’m quite sure it’s not “important,” but there’s no question in my mind that I love it. I think if the internet and blogs existed then they would have had a moment; maybe a High Places-sized moment, but a moment nonetheless. Their last EP came out on Grand Royal! But it didn’t matter, no one heard it.  

If you were a freshman college radio DJ, I bet you spent a lot of time finding records like this in the C stacks or in the mail bin, and those records would be really important to you for a month or so at a time. (In high school I used Epitonic for this.)