BPM’s Top 50 Songs of 2023
Songs are soundtracks. No matter what you’re doing, when you have a song in your ears then it...
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BPM’s Honorable Mentions 2023
The records we think you should give a second chance to change your life; albums that may have slipped by on your journey through the year
BPM Team’s Personal 2023 Round-ups
Having finished our annual festive round-up of the best music of the year with our Top 50 Albums...
10 Artists To Discover at Le Guess Who? 2023
Utrecht's Le Guess Who? Festival miraculously keeps two very particular plates spinning: its status as one of the world's most revered indoor music festivals, and its inclination to look beyond names that are oversaturated within your average lineup.
Festival Preview: 12 acts to watch at Left Of The Dial 2023
When those Luchador Sky Dancers start appearing in Rotterdam, you know what time it is. The annual musical...
Track-by-Track: Phosphene guide us through the stories and melodies of new album Transmute
While it’s not quite the distance from Point Arena, California to West Quoddy, Maine, I caught up with...
On Deck: Delmer Darion introduce us to their favourite concept albums
Delmer Darion are the London-based duo of Tom Lenton and Oliver Jack and they released their second album...
Futurismus, or: Songs of the Body, the Blood, the Machine.
2023 saw the climactic release of a number of albums from groups with diverse backgrounds and histories, united in the interest for a new, mechanical sound that abandons generic conventions...
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Return to the Deep Time: Candy Claws discuss 10 years of Ceres & Calypso
Ten years ago, humanity received a strange broadcast from the far away past: 12 songs of psychedelic bubblegum pop decorated with cotton-candy guitar gloss, that told the story of Ceres – the white seal made of snow – and the girl Calypso who time-travel through the prehistoric period the Mesozoic era.
In Memoriam: Brian McBride of Stars of the Lid
When Stars of the Lid released their final studio album, 2007’s And Their Refinement of the Decline, Ivo...
