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Zoon reconstructs WHOOP-Szo’s folksome “Cut Your Hair” into an ambient wonder (BPM Premiere)

Joshua PickardMay 25, 2020

Under the alias of Zoon, Daniel Monkman is able to travel into the depths of his personal experiences as a member of the Brokenhead Ojibway Nation. Born and rai...

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Heartour races through neon-streaked electro-pop landscapes on R U IN (BPM Premiere)

Joshua PickardMay 21, 2020

Growing up in a small town in Connecticut, Jason Young spent his formative years in the shadow of the glitz and chaos of New York City, a place of riotous nois...

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Sara Marie Barron explores the line between fantasy and reality in luxurious jazz-pop soundscapes on “Up All Night” (BPM Premiere)

Joshua PickardMay 21, 2020

Some things we can’t help but embrace – some innate talent that allows us to see ourselves in a different light, a way to step outside the noise of our lives to...

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Radiator King explores a blues-punk apocalypse on “Crusade” (BPM Premiere)

Joshua PickardMay 18, 2020

There are admittedly few things from which to take comfort during the current social and political stresses, but new music from Brooklyn storyteller Adam Silves...

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Venus Furs lays waste to acres of densely distorted indie rock landscapes on “Page Before” (BPM Premiere)

Joshua PickardMay 14, 2020

Working under the moniker of Venus Furs, Montreal-based writer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Paul Kasner has been assembling a remarkable collage of psyc...

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Re.decay enlists ADH, Mawcom X, and Sedric Perry to explore funk-soaked hip-hop in their “Sun in the Morning” video (BPM Premiere)

Joshua PickardMay 14, 2020

There are no limits to the vast reservoir of assimilated influence at work in the music of Berlin-based hip-hop duo Re.decay. Assembled through the dexterous gu...

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Orpine explore a lo-fi folk loveliness on forlorn rambler “Migrating Geese Overhead” (BPM Premiere)

Joshua PickardMay 13, 2020

Eleanor Rudge and Oliver Catt have been circling in one another’s orbits for a number of years, though they’ve been more recently separated by 300 miles of Brit...

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Andrew Kaffer dismantles the strange pop traditions of his influences on “Wha’s the Use in Stallin’?” (BPM Premiere)

Joshua PickardMay 8, 2020

Andrew Kaffer doesn’t care much for the limitations of genres. They’re confining and rarely allow for the kind of wild musical escapism that he so obviously ado...

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Marlana explores tenuous emotional connections through translucent pop atmospheres on “Midnight Special” (BPM Premiere)

Joshua PickardMay 7, 2020

As she sat in a Los Angeles hospital’s parking lot and mulled over the reality of a voluntary stay in their psych ward, Marlana Sheetz main thought was that she...

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Saint Mars offers hope in the face of devastation on synth-washed single “Pacific State” (BPM Premiere)

Joshua PickardMay 7, 2020

The world of UK musical outfit Saint Mars is built upon a foundation of tangled pop influences, electronic perspectives, and vicarious indie rock impulses. The ...

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