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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…
Beats Per MinuteScenesAlbum Review: Cameron Winter – Live at Carnegie Hall In 2000, Malcolm Gladwell described “the tipping point” as “that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire” .
Beats Per MinuteScenesRuby Waters announces new album, examines the weight of financial burdens on lead single “Pay As You Go” [BPM Premiere] Born in Ontario and currently calling the mountains of British Columbia home, Ruby Waters has always viewed music as a cauldron of influences and experiences colored in various hues through the tidal…
Beats Per MinuteScenesAlbum Review: Leon Majcen – The Leaving Kind A life on the road isn’t for everyone, but it’s definitely for Leon Majcen . When not between motel rooms and rowdy bars, he’s in Nashville churning out enough music to label him prolific in his…
Beats Per MinuteScenesInterview: A deep dive into the world of Shearling with Alex Kent By now, it’s an almost mythical origin story! After my review of Sprain’s The Lamb as Effigy , I was contacted by vocalist Alex Kent. Mere days later, Sprain ceased existing.
Beats Per MinuteScenesAlbum Review: Tinashe – Popstar The title is the whole argument. Tinashe has spent the latter part of her career to date being the example everybody reached for when they wanted to talk about leaving a major label.
Beats Per MinuteScenesAlbum Review: Logic1000 – Confirmation! As sound as it is to build around a track featuring Christine & The Queens, the remainder of Logic1000 ’s sophomore album ends up feeling like a loose collection of compilation cuts and B-sides…
Beats Per MinuteScenesBPM Curates: September 2026 September is always stacked. The summer lull of album releases is over and the late flurry of new albums announced for release before the end of the year rolls in.
Beats Per MinuteScenesAlbum Review: Le Ren – Don’t Be Funny Without Me There are some artists who just sound so inherently comfortable in their music that it’s impossible to imagine them never not making it.
Beats Per MinuteScenesAlbum Review: Protomartyr – Hotel Usona Detroit-based Protomartyr are no stranger to the bleak depiction. 2020’s Ultimate Success Today stands out for its anxious laments regarding climate crisis, problems related to egoic clinging, and…
Beats Per MinuteScenesAlbum Review: Blondshell – Violins If Sabrina Teitelbaum were offered the chance to be a young, rock musician in 1990s America a couple years ago, the words “snap” and “hand” would enter the conversation.
Beats Per MinuteScenesAlbum Review: Julia Jacklin – The Gem It has been a cracking decade for Julia Jacklin – well, at least with music critics and other musicians.
Beats Per MinuteScenesAlbum Review: Gilla Band – Pugnello Some history comes sudden. On the 31 st of July 1932, the German NSDAP suddenly, shockingly, counted the second highest amount of votes during the German federal election.
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