BPM’s Top 20 EPs of 2021
Our favorite EPs, mini-albums, mixtapes and any other in-between releases.
John Amen
Overlooked 2021: The Best Albums We Didn’t Review
Sometimes albums just slip through the net - we wanted to give the best ones their moment in the spotlight.
Album Review: Emma Ruth Rundle – Engine of Hell
Following 2018’s On Dark Horses and her riveting collaboration with Thou, 2020’s May Our Chambers Be Full, Emma...
Album Review: Portrayal of Guilt – CHRISTFUCKER
When Nietzsche declared that “God is dead,” he wasn’t necessarily expressing an atheistic position but responding to the...
Album Review: The War On Drugs – I Don’t Live Here Anymore
Todd Haines’s I’m Not There is overtly a fictionalized take on Bob Dylan’s mythologized persona. The movie focuses...
Podcast: Let It Beat Episode 05 – Caleb Landry Jones, Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine, and Poppy
On the new edition of Beats Per Minute’s writers podacast, John W welcomes Ray Finlayson, Carlo Thomas and...
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...
Podcast: Let It Beat Episode 03 – Little Simz, Halsey and Low
This episode, host John Wohlmacher welcomes back Harrison Suits Baer and John Amen to our music discussion podcast....
Album Review: Goat – Headsoup
‘Outtake’ projects often fail to measure up to a band’s ‘official’ work, serving as questionable hors d’oeuvres until...
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...
