Beats Per Minute

BPM Curates: June 2024

Our monthly playlist of the team's essential new songs

Lucas Martins·June 6, 2024

Charli XCX is a sentimentalist. At a glance, someone whose work has remained unflinchingly focused on a chronically...

Lucas Martins·July 31, 2023

Barbie The Album is an exercise in balancing acts and compromises: Between the vision for a Barbie album...

You could easily write a dramatic pop-rock opera about the major global events that happened in 2022. From...

Tim Sentz·March 18, 2022

There are two Hollywood films titled Crash. One is the tone-deaf Oscar-baiting by Paul Haggis that’s almost universally...

Quarantine days notwithstanding, 2022 is expected to be a rager. With the pandemic slowing down, and artists hitting...

Tim Sentz·November 5, 2021

World domination is what Charli XCX has her sights set on. Ever since she sprung into our hearts...

Rob H·May 5, 2021

We’re now less than a month away from the release of Rostam‘s new album Changephobia, and with a...

It’s been a year of many endings, but Beats Per Minute’s is one of re-birth. For those many...

Rob H·July 23, 2020

Britain’s biggest musical award, the Mercury Prize, has been steadily unveiling its shortlist of nominees for the 2020...