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Album Review: FKA twigs – CAPRISONGS

Rob Hakimian·January 18, 2022

For most, the creation of a piece of art like the song and video “cellophane” would be the...

Ray Finlayson·January 17, 2022

To say Grace Cummings sings songs is something of an understatement. On her new album, Storm Queen, the...

Tim Sentz·January 14, 2022

“I don’t act hard, I’m a hard act to follow,” seems like such a prophetic statement now. Back...

Marc Griffin·January 13, 2022

It’s been a decade since the melancholic musical madness of The Weeknd’s first three critically acclaimed mixtapes had...

Ray Finlayson·January 12, 2022

You might not think it at first glance, but Muscle Shoals Metaphysical took some six years to finish....

Ray Finlayson·January 11, 2022

My grandparents were the reason my family and I went to church on Christmas day. As they got...

Chase McMullen·January 10, 2022

Nas needed Hit-Boy. In the (now truly many) days since Illmatic, the legendary MC has often been derided...

John Wohlmacher·January 7, 2022

Behind the concrete facades, there’s a world of our own making. Why shouldn’t there be? The world has...

John Wohlmacher·January 5, 2022

If anything gets an editorial going by November, it’s your general unannounced drop via tweet that an amorphous...

John Wohlmacher·December 20, 2021

A little while ago, some of our writers got together at the obligatory BPM office watercooler and brought...