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Album Review: Loraine James – Reflection

Jasper WIllemsJune 10, 2021

Few music terms are as archaic, constrained and decisively stupid as ‘IDM’ (‘Intelligent Dance Music’), and using it without so much as an asterisk attached re...

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Album Review: Bachelor – Doomin’ Sun

Jasper WIllemsJune 3, 2021

The ‘You are awesome. No, YOU are awesome!’-energy goes damn near unchecked on Bachelor's Doomin’ Sun, a record that detonates the talents of Ellen Kempner and...

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BPM’s Darkest Albums

John Wohlmacher, John Amen, Brody Kenny, Ray Finlayson, Todd Dedman, Aleksandr Smirnov, Tim Sentz, Matthew Barton, Jasper WIllems, JT Early, Rob Hakimian, Ana Leorne, Kyle Kohner, Jeremy J. Fisette and Chase McMullenMay 31, 2021

Grab a cup of tea, hold on to your favourite My Little Pony plushie, and venture with us into the nether realms of the darkest albums according to the BPM team...

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Album Review: Lily Konigsberg – The Best of Lily Konigsberg Right Now

Jasper WIllemsMay 27, 2021

You get the sense Lily Konigsberg has skipped adulthood in its entirety. On one side, her work exudes the giddy, impulsive energy of a fledgling leaving the ne...

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Album Review: Sons of Kemet – Black To The Future

Jasper WIllemsMay 17, 2021

While the cultural discourse remains ever too preoccupied trying to crystallize the moment, the tireless Shabaka Hutchings stresses constant movement. Such is ...

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Illuminating the Void: EMA’s Past Life Martyred Saints at 10

Jasper WIllemsMay 10, 2021

'What’s the deal with this image of a man being tortured to death perpetuated ad infinitum to a point where people become completely desensitized by it?' I cau...

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Q&A: Noga Erez – “I hope I will always be limiting myself in some way”

Jasper WIllemsApril 23, 2021

For Israeli artist Noga Erez, art is life and life is art. It allows her to become an open book and wield a fearless, resourceful pop vernacular with her partn...

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Album Review: Matt Norman – Thoughtless

Jasper WIllemsApril 15, 2021

Two years ago, during a vacation in New York, I found myself strolling across Coney Island. Though it was a hot and bright September afternoon, something felt ...

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Album Review: Yaya Bey – The Things I Can’t Take With Me EP

Jasper WIllemsApril 14, 2021

It’s nigh impossible to address Yaya Bey's new EP The Things I Can’t Take With Me without also addressing the record that spawned from the same bedroom writing...

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Album Review: Iglooghost – Lei Line Eon

Jasper WIllemsApril 8, 2021

"No no limits, we'll reach for the sky / No valley too deep, no mountain too high" Dutch dance act 2 Unlimited once proclaimed. Almost three decades later, thi...

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