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BPM’s Top 50 Albums of 2020

Rob Hakimian, Michael Cyrs, Brody Kenny, Kyle Kohner, Andy Johnston, JT Early, Chase McMullen, Todd Dedman, Conor Lochrie, Lauren Mullineaux, Tim Sentz, Scott Zanassi, Ray Finlayson, Josh Sand, Carlo Thomas, Ethan Reis, John Wohlmacher, Jeremy J. Fisette, Aleksandr Smirnov, Grady Penna, Emma Bauchner and Gareth O'MalleyDecember 9, 2020

Well. Well, this was a year. When we got back together, a mixture of old school BPMers and some blessed new blood, we were excited for what was to come. We ...

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Album Review: Keeley Forsyth – Photograph EP

Michael CyrsNovember 24, 2020

It's simple to assign adjectives to Keeley Forsyth’s sound. It’s stark, gothic, minimal, and ghostlike. But, anyone who gave this year’s debut album Debris mor...

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Album Review: MOURN – Self Worth

Michael CyrsNovember 12, 2020

Let’s get this fact out of the way right now: the four members of Mourn were just teenagers when they released their first album in 2014, and their youth has f...

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Remain in Light at 40: A Celebration of Talking Heads’ landmark album

Rob Hakimian, Carlo Thomas, Kyle Kohner, Ray Finlayson, Chase McMullen, Harrison Suits Baer, John Wohlmacher and Michael CyrsOctober 8, 2020

Today marks 40 years since October 8, 1980, the release date of Talking Heads' era-defining fourth album Remain in Light. It's hard to believe that an album th...

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Album Review: Deradoorian – Find The Sun

Michael CyrsSeptember 22, 2020

Many of us are spending extensive amounts of time in self-exploration, and Find The Sun is an album borne of just that. For her second long-player, A...

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Interview: Jessy Lanza

Michael CyrsJuly 24, 2020

With her third album All The Time released today, Michael Cyrs caught up with the Canadian artist to discuss its creation, her videos and her relationship with...

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Album Review: Protomartyr – Ultimate Success Today

Michael CyrsJuly 20, 2020

Protomartyr frontman Joe Casey must read quite a lot. On the band's 2014 track "Maidenhead" he retold a dark tale from a 1941 novel by British author and playw...

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Album Review: LA Priest – GENE

Michael CyrsJune 16, 2020

No one is more tired of hearing this tale than Sam Eastgate, but damn, Fantasy Black Channel was one hell of a record. Eastgate’s now defunct Late of the Pier ...

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Album Review: Other Lives – For Their Love

Michael CyrsMay 4, 2020

A whole host of instruments familiar and unfamiliar can be found throughout Other Lives' four albums. Picking apart these complexities is one of the best parts...

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Album Review: Ian Chang – 属 Belonging

Michael CyrsApril 23, 2020

At what point does a musician decide to take that leap into a solo career? It’s a question most famously faced by jazzers and session musicians, and is as old ...

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