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Beats Per MinuteScenesAlbum Review: Gregory Douglass – Amateur For better or for worse, some artists just keep on operating just outside the main tracks of the music industry.
Beats Per MinuteScenesAlbum Review: Ziemba – The Braid Everything is connected, and everything overlaps. That’s the thread of meaning that runs through the fifth album by Ziemba , the moniker of singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and journalist René…
Beats Per MinuteScenesAlbum Review: Twisted Teens – The Holy Cross Tigers Every now and then, an act comes along that strikes a captivating blend between the retro and modish, the vintage and contemporary, occurring as elusively derivative and commandingly original.
Beats Per MinuteScenesAlbum Review: Fujiya & Miyagi – New Shiny Object Fujiya & Miyagi are at the point in their 20-plus-year career where they know exactly what they are doing with each release.
Beats Per MinuteScenesAlbum Review: Fenne Lily – Win Win There are two responses to change that ultimately both end in acceptance: you can fight against it for as long as humanely possible until you eventually settle into the groove of this new normal or…
Beats Per MinuteScenesAlbum Review: Kali Malone – Burning Song With her latest album, Burning Song , Kali Malone returns to the organ – not just any organ, the Bach Organ at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig, Germany.
Beats Per MinuteScenesMy Clever Android ascends through evolving rock atmospheres on “Elevator” [BPM Premiere] The world rarely makes sense, but for some, music can offer a brief dose of clarity while illustrating the curious mechanics of the world around us.
Beats Per MinuteScenesAlbum Review: Andy Stott – Late Loop Electronic club music seems to have stagnated a little. The younger generation is looking towards rock, pop and rap concerts for collective experiences, favouring moshing to dance, and many of the…
Beats Per MinuteScenesAlbum Review: DIIV – ZIRP! In June of 2025, cultural commentator and meta-artist Brad Troemel released his then latest in a signature of long-form video essays to his Patreon .
Beats Per MinuteScenesCharlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul are neck-deep in wellness trends on “From Healer to Dealer”, announce new album Irreverent dance-pop duo Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul have announced that they’ll release a new album called Mainland Madinina on 5 February via DeeWee.
Beats Per MinuteScenesAlbum Review: PISS – you made me / skin on linen The rise of the so-called manosphere: platforms sputtering with demeaning vents and demented propaganda. Harassment of women in digital spaces and physical locales.
Beats Per MinuteScenesBPM Curates: October 2026 This is it: the final run-in to the end of 2026. who’s making a play to squeeze onto those coveted Songs Of The Year lists? Turns out a whole lot of people.
Beats Per MinuteScenesAlbum Review: Kee Avil – Vapor Although she’s three albums in, Vicky Mettler (aka Kee Avil ) has never seemed particularly comfortable with constructing albums in any kind of traditional sense.
Beats Per MinuteScenesAlbum Review: James Brandon Lewis – Calling Antonin For some 15 years or so, since relocating to New York City, James Brandon Lewis has become one of the spearheads of modern jazz, a prolific one at that with some 20 releases under his own name or as…
Beats Per MinuteScenesAlbum Review: John Legend – Muse John Legend explained the delay himself, the day before the record came out, and he did it without a trace of defensiveness. He and Pharrell Williams have been friends for more than two decades.
Beats Per MinuteScenesAlbum Review: Jeremiah Chiu – Edge Conditions Jeremiah Chiu is a musician who thrives with a limitation. His work to date has been evocative but focused, be it creating a musical document of his time in the Åland Islands with friend Marta Sofia…
Beats Per MinuteScenesAlbum Review: Charlie Parr – Rooming House In Minnesota, Charlie Parr ’s current home and native state, around 80% of low-income rental households spend more than 30% of their income on housing.
Beats Per MinuteScenesAlbum Review: Deafheaven – At Work In The Fields Of The Bomb EP Throughout their oeuvre, finding the perfect paradox has been Deafheaven ’s driving impulse. Rage and shimmering texture. The fluorescent ugliness of the world contrasted with a celestial beauty.
Beats Per MinuteScenesAlbum Review: Max Richter – While The Flood Rages How does a classical music composer become a pop star in these modern times (let us leave Mozart and other ‘old’ classics aside)?
Beats Per MinuteScenesKizz Daniel delivers his gratitude song in “Owo Oluwa” The man who made “Buga” now wants to talk about where it came from. Kizz Daniel ‘s “Owo Oluwa” is a gratitude record, which is the most predictable move in Nigerian pop.
Beats Per MinuteScenesAlbum Review: They Are Gutting A Body Of Water – KOOL FAITH / LOOSIES II There’s something thrilling about the mixtape . From the Stones’ proto-template Exile on Main Street to FKA Twigs’ Caprisongs to Cindy Lee’s “adjacent” Diamond Jubilee to Klein’s Sleep with a Cane…
Beats Per MinuteScenesAlbum Review: Fontaines D.C. – Dopamine Chamber The idea of cultural recurrence is very appealing to me. Things do not simply end, they echo out into the future, inspiration making way to resurrection.
Beats Per MinuteScenesChild Seat attempt to maintain their creative momentum on new wave jam “Stuck” [BPM Premiere] Los Angeles electro-pop band Child Seat are as attuned to the physical effects of music as they are to its emotional oscillations.
Beats Per MinuteScenesAugust Benjamin explores the power of familial histories on “Rose Marie” [BPM Premiere] Claiming Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom as his youthful stomping grounds, musician August Benjamin first heard the sound of music wandering through life when he was just a kid, with his father playing…
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