BPM’s Favorite Ambient of 2021
A pool of great ambient music to sink into.
Andy Johnston
BPM’s Top 50 Albums of 2021
And so the sun sets on another year of music. This week the BPM staff have shared our...
BPM’s Top 50 Songs of 2021
Sometimes a song says it all. Sometimes an artist produces a few minutes that provide a window into...
Album Review: Converge & Chelsea Wolfe – Bloodmoon: I
Listener… Listener… Be on your guard. Converge’s power grows… It rises to its peak under the hour of...
BPM’s Top 50 Albums of the 2010s
This isn’t some alternate timeline, or an instance of you waking up from a long Super Mario World...
BPM’s Albums of the 2010s: Honorable Mentions
This week Beats Per Minute is unveiling its Top 50 albums of the 2010s. We’re well aware it’s...
Vespertine at 20: Our guide to Björk’s romantic opus
She wanted to craft an album bound by domesticity, inspired by her newfound partnership with Matthew Barney, and delivered a record overflowing with wintry choirs and strings, icicle-delicate music box keyboards and beats...
Danish blackgazers MØL return with the ferociously beautiful “Photophobic”, announce new album
Believe it or not, MØL – the dashing Danish dudes in pink Hawaiian short sleeve shirts in the...
Album Review: Backxwash – I Lie Here Buried With My Rings And My Dresses
On “Redemption”, the closing song from Backxwash’s Polaris Prize-winning previous album, God Has Nothing To Do With This...
Album Review: Closer – Within One Stem
As emotionally stark and bleak as Within One Stem can get, there’s a palpable, moving sense of empathy and humanity across the record, and the band’s passionate playing is testament to their conviction, their belief in what they are doing, regardless of the challenges that accompany dogged perseverance
