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Album Review: Nadja – Luminous Rot

Todd DedmanJune 1, 2021

Berlin-based Canadian duo Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff have been churning out their fuzzy doom shoegaze dreamsludge hybrid racket as Nadja for 16 years now. ...

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BPM’s Darkest Albums

John Wohlmacher, John Amen, Brody Kenny, Ray Finlayson, Todd Dedman, Aleksandr Smirnov, Tim Sentz, Matthew Barton, Jasper WIllems, JT Early, Rob Hakimian, Ana Leorne, Kyle Kohner, Jeremy J. Fisette and Chase McMullenMay 31, 2021

Grab a cup of tea, hold on to your favourite My Little Pony plushie, and venture with us into the nether realms of the darkest albums according to the BPM team...

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Album Review: BIG | BRAVE – Vital

Todd DedmanApril 28, 2021

With pretty much every BIG | BRAVE record comes a shift in the line-up of the band, and today the core duo of Robin Wattie and Mathieu Ball are now joined by T...

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Album Review: ÅRABROT – Norwegian Gothic

Todd DedmanApril 16, 2021

On Årabrot's ninth studio album, Norwegian Gothic, the duo of Kjetil Nernes and Karin Park clearly feel they have reached the zenith of their career to date.&n...

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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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