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Album Review: Godspeed You! Black Emperor – G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END!

Todd DedmanApril 2, 2021

We live on a planet of increasing political polarisation, populist nationalism and an emerging acceptance of ‘othering’ based on fear and unjustified stigma. N...

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Album Review: LIT. MAJOR – Fiction

Todd DedmanMarch 19, 2021

Connecticut’s LIT. MAJOR writes sadcore bedroom folk for introverts. The minimalist folk instrumentation, vibrato-heavy vocals and self-deprecating, self-doubt...

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DOOMED: Dwelling within the Discography of Dumile – The Man, The Monster & The Master

Chase McMullen, Brody Kenny, Ethan Reis, Tim Sentz, John Wohlmacher, Rob Hakimian, Andy Johnston and Todd DedmanMarch 8, 2021

It’s hard to accept that DOOM is gone. It simply doesn’t feel his time has passed, and given his knack for capturing the future, it likely never will. Amidst t...

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Album Review: Blanck Mass – In Ferneaux

Todd DedmanMarch 4, 2021

In a recent interview with BPM’s Jasper Willems, Benjamin John Power said that he didn’t want In Ferneaux, his fifth album as Blanck Mass, to be his 'lockdown ...

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BPM’s Daft Punk Greatest Hits Compilation

Rob Hakimian, Seb Grech, John Wohlmacher, Todd Dedman, Ana Leorne, Kyle Kohner, Chase McMullen and Ray FinlaysonMarch 3, 2021

Rather than simply picking Daft Punk's most well known ("Get Lucky"? Get in the bin!), our writers were simply asked to pick a couple of their favourites for inclusion. What results is a unique, eclectic and surely not at all contentious compilation of tracks, which features something from each of their releases – even the Tron Legacy soundtrack!...

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4. or Docklands introduce themselves with the beguiling glitch-folk Come // Close EP

Todd DedmanMarch 1, 2021

4. or Docklands is the musical project of 22-year-old Jack Coleman, and precision from disorder is crucial to an understanding of the strengths of his debut...

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Album Review: Divide and Dissolve – Gas Lit

Todd DedmanFebruary 3, 2021

There is undeniable beauty in crushing volume. From the synaesthesia-inducing repetition of Sunn O))) to The Body’s raucous squall, through to Moor Mother’s au...

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Album Review: Boris with Merzbow – 2R0I2P0

Todd DedmanDecember 18, 2020

2R0I2P0 (or "2020 R.I.P." if you want to actually say it out loud) brings together the pre-eminent sonic forces of Japanese glorious noise makers Boris and Mer...

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BPM Team’s Personal 2020 Round-ups

Rob Hakimian, Chase McMullen, Kyle Kohner, Todd Dedman, Ray Finlayson, Tim Sentz, Jeremy J. Fisette, Gareth O'Malley, Ana Leorne, John Wohlmacher, Andy Johnston and Aleksandr SmirnovDecember 14, 2020

It's been a year of many endings, but Beats Per Minute's is one of re-birth. For those many of you who probably don't know our history, BPM was run as a passio...

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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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