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Album Review: The Avalanches – We Will Always Love You

Tim SentzDecember 11, 2020

After The Avalanches' world-beating 2000 debut album Since I Left You, it took 16 years for us to get the follow-up, Wildflower. Sixteen. While Kevin Shields s...

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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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BPM’s Top 50 Songs of 2020

Rob Hakimian, Tim Sentz, Ana Leorne, Ray Finlayson, Chase McMullen, Kyle Kohner, Aleksandr Smirnov, JT Early, Brody Kenny, Carlo Thomas, Grady Penna, Harrison Suits Baer, John Wohlmacher, Conor Lochrie, Gareth O'Malley, Ethan Reis, Jeremy J. Fisette, Andy Johnston and Matthew BartonDecember 8, 2020

Despite everything else that's happened in 2020, there sure has been a lot of good music. It just keeps coming, and we've all found the songs that have helped ...

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BPM’s Top 25 EPs of 2020

Rob Hakimian, Chase McMullen, Andy Johnston, Tim Sentz, Conor Lochrie, JT Early, Josh Sand, Ethan Reis, Emma Bauchner, Kyle Kohner, Ray Finlayson, Jasper WIllems and Evan KaloudisDecember 7, 2020

Call them EPs, call them mini-albums, there's no denying that this short-form medium is still a crucial building block for an artist's development – and yet th...

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Second Look: These New Puritans – Hidden

Tim SentzDecember 3, 2020

For its 10-year anniversary, Domino Records is re-releasing the sophomore album from English post-punk revivalists These New Puritans, Hidden. Coming just two ...

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Album Review: Billy Danze – The Listening Session

Tim SentzNovember 20, 2020

It’s been a minute since the Brooklyn rap duo M.O.P. did anything together – 2014 saw an EP drop, but since then the tandem of Lil’ Fame and Billy Danze have f...

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Album Review: Pink Siifu & Fly Anakin – FlySiifu’s

Tim SentzNovember 13, 2020

On his sophomore album Negro, released back in April, Alabama underground rapper Pink Siifu threw everything he could at the wall. Elements of jazz, punk, Afro...

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Hindsight 2020: The best albums we didn’t review

Emma Bauchner, Ray Finlayson, Rob Hakimian, Brody Kenny, Kyle Kohner, Ana Leorne, Chase McMullen, Gareth O'Malley, Grady Penna, Josh Sand, Tim Sentz, Harrison Suits Baer, Carlo Thomas, John Wohlmacher and Scott ZanassiNovember 9, 2020

Well, here we are, with this nightmare of a year nearing a close. Before we dive into our proper year-end coverage, we wanted to take a moment to show some lov...

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Album Review: NOTHING – The Great Dismal

Tim SentzNovember 3, 2020

Philadelphia band Nothing might be the strongest bastion of shoegaze revival in the 2020s, and despite numerous line-up changes, Domenic Palermo has lead them ...

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Album Review: Benny the Butcher – Burden of Proof

Tim SentzOctober 20, 2020

It’s 2020 and Benny the Butcher’s sophomore album Burden of Proof is the seventh release from the enigmatic Griselda Records. The constant onslaught from this ...

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