Album Review: The Magnetic Fields – Quickies
Stephin Merritt has forged a career balancing precocious wit with pop theatricality. As the frontman for The Magnetic...
Joshua Pickard
On Deck: The Keep
The Keep is the avenue through which Gothenburg-based producer Oliver Knowles explores a vast array of droning rhythms,...
Radiator King explores a blues-punk apocalypse on “Crusade” (BPM Premiere)
There are admittedly few things from which to take comfort during the current social and political stresses, but...
The Corner Laughers share sparkling indie-pop romp “The Calculating Boy”
Californian indie-poppers The Corner Laughers inhabit a world where bright pop arrangements often obscure darker lyrical narratives. Following...
Venus Furs lays waste to acres of densely distorted indie rock landscapes on “Page Before” (BPM Premiere)
Working under the moniker of Venus Furs, Montreal-based writer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Paul Kasner has been assembling a...
Re.decay enlists ADH, Mawcom X, and Sedric Perry to explore funk-soaked hip-hop in their “Sun in the Morning” video (BPM Premiere)
There are no limits to the vast reservoir of assimilated influence at work in the music of Berlin-based...
Orpine explore a lo-fi folk loveliness on forlorn rambler “Migrating Geese Overhead” (BPM Premiere)
Eleanor Rudge and Oliver Catt have been circling in one another’s orbits for a number of years, though...
Andrew Kaffer dismantles the strange pop traditions of his influences on “Wha’s the Use in Stallin’?” (BPM Premiere)
Andrew Kaffer doesn’t care much for the limitations of genres. They’re confining and rarely allow for the kind...
Marlana explores tenuous emotional connections through translucent pop atmospheres on “Midnight Special” (BPM Premiere)
As she sat in a Los Angeles hospital’s parking lot and mulled over the reality of a voluntary...
Saint Mars offers hope in the face of devastation on synth-washed single “Pacific State” (BPM Premiere)
The world of UK musical outfit Saint Mars is built upon a foundation of tangled pop influences, electronic...
