Live Review: Caroline Polachek at Eventim Apollo, London – February 14, 2023
Desire Day. It was always meant to be this way: Caroline Polachek releasing her hotly anticipated new album...
Rob Hakimian
Interview: Black Belt Eagle Scout guides us through her homeland and its influence on her new album
Black Belt Eagle Scout’s new album The Land, The Water, The Sky finds the artist reflecting on the way she’s reconnected with the terrain and the history of where she was raised. Rob Hakimian speaks to her about the musical and literal journey to this release.
Album Review: M(h)aol – Attachment Styles
Irish feminist band M(h)aol (pronounced “male”) first punctured into my consciousness with the release of “Asking For It”...
BPM’s Most Anticipated Releases of 2023
Here we are in another January facing down another year full of surprises. While some of those surprises...
BPM Team’s Personal 2022 Round-ups
Every year we throw the doors open to the BPM team to give them space to write or...
BPM’s Top 50 Albums of 2022
You could easily write a dramatic pop-rock opera about the major global events that happened in 2022. From...
BPM’s Top 50 Songs of 2022
This year saw Beyoncé retain her Queen of Pop crown with a 16-track comeback, one of the pretenders...
Interview: Sophie Jamieson: “I wanted to accentuate the promise of new life, the inevitability of renewal and resilience of nature”
London-based songwriter Sophie Jamieson released her debut album Choosing last week, culminating years of hard work in which...
Album Review: Weyes Blood – And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
Natalie Mering knows that the world is ending, but she’s going to keep on searching for and sharing...
Interview: Special Interest and their intense and intentional new album Endure
On the release day of their flamboyant new album Endure, New Orleans quartet Special Interest were in London...
